‘Alice, play us a song.’ Yes, Mama, but only if Charles accompanies me,’ ‘Oh please, Charles, sing for us,’ his sister Mary asked. ‘It has... been so long. Please.’ Charles walked over to the piano. ‘Alright, only one song.’ He sat next to Alice. ‘How about ‘Mademoiselle from Armentieres’?’ ‘Charles!’ Mother scolded. ‘Alright then.’ He began to sing, ‘I’m Enry the eighth, I am. Enry the eighth.’ Alice hit him on the shoulder. ‘Be serious or I shan’t play.’ By now everyone was laughing. Charles. The usual cadre of teachers was there to keep order and it even looked like they were trying to sort the troops by homeroom. Apparently Devers had the school's front doors blocked.She wanted us to have an audience I guess, or have troops in reserve in case we failed and triggered an assault. The students weren't exactly the Army of the Potomac, but we vastly outnumbered the CLODs if it came to that.We had an audience, that was sure. We'd stripped in full sight of the CLODs, and that hadn't been. I had even lifted the mattress off of my bed and cleaned the frame. " I think so." Kid, you have to be decisive in your thinking. It is either clean or it is not. You are either finished or you are not. I ask you again; Are you finished cleaning yet?"I thought for a quick moment and nodded my head,"I have gotten this room as clean as I know how."Trefual quickly went through the room checking the closet and each dresser and desk drawer. He even checked the top corners of the closet. He went back. "Nun stell dich nicht so an. Deine Frisur ist nicht so toll, aber mitdem Makeup sieht kein Mensch, dass du kein M?dchen bist." Ich glaube dir nicht. Kein M?dchen hat so eine Frisur." Das ist doch kein Problem. Es ist kalt genug f?r eine M?tze, damitsieht niemand deine Haare."Die M?tze war eine typische M?dchenm?tze, flauschig und leuchtend lila.Ich muss sagen, mit den Haaren aus dem Gesicht und der M?tze sah ichnoch mehr wie ein M?dchen aus als mit der Per?cke. Wieso wirkte meinGesicht so.
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