When she finally was finished with her day's work, she staggered into the cottage where her mother silently hugged her close, wiped the tears from her... eyes, and gave her some supper. They both dared not be caught talking if a man was around. When they heard the footsteps of the two men returning from town, Anna rushed off to bed to avoid a confrontation.The next day, her father made Anna do her work in her underclothes again as a punishment for the previous day. She felt naked only wearing. There just wasn’t going to be an easy way. She made her voice very soft, so Miss Warren would have to listen closely. ‘Starting tomorrow morning,’ Robyn said carefully, ‘I want an updated total of paid subscribers every week. Where’s our largest circulation? Where’s the weakest? How many subscribers do we have in each neighborhood?’ Lucy Warren started drumming her fingers again. ‘Don’t know if I should give you figures like that,’ she said. ‘None of those other whippersnapper editors were. That light sparked different colors as it went around, and it could be seen for miles. Everybody in the county came to watch it light up. That tower was the only part of the Car Wash Megan had never been in. The door to that was in Uncle Bob’s office and had no handle. It was always locked, and Megan never could even figure out how anybody could open it.When she got there she went straight to Uncle Bob’s office. Everybody there knew her and lots of people said “Hi” as she went in. Her Uncle was. ‘One day I was an outsider, the next, I was Sir Colin’s.’ ‘Sir Colin was very wrong. I didn’t think he could be this wrong.’ ‘If I might Sir Glen, what are you talking about?’ ‘Leif, you are not a companion, you should have never been brought to a conclave to be taught, particularly by Sir Colin. Now while your behavior is reprehensible, I think your energy would be better placed elsewhere. I’m going to have you moved from the Order hall Leif, and you will join me in a room across the hall.’.