She came back in evening and i was avoiding facing her. She came and spoke to me very normally as if nothing happened. Sanju em chesav rojantha intlon...e na bore et al(What u did all day bored at home?), i was so much relieved by her talk that she is not aware or ok with what i did. That night she asked me before going to sleep”Night em chesav babu nidra leda niku”(what had u done in night u didn’t sleep it seems).I was scared if she knows it or doesn’t. So i was silent that day and did nothing. "True. Because you seemed to be good for business -- but those days are over now. How are you going to pay this?" "I'm not, I can't. I just have unemployment insurance and what my sister can send me." Madame H smiled, "You could get another job?" "Get a wot?" She leaned back in mirth, "I was kidding. You've got your house, Betty." "Please! Anyway it already has a second mortgage." She leaned forward across her desk and looked at one of the files on her desktop."A very modest one, plenty of. The other two sides were separated from the adjacent buildings by a fire break that was only about a foot wide. There was just no room in either place for mischief unless the adjacent buildings were knocked down and cleared away first.It was a little past 10:00 AM when the lookouts shouted that a column of troops were approaching. Ha! Duke Marno was so sure of a quick victory that he was present. He was riding a beautiful horse, and I hoped that the horse escaped without injury. I noticed that. We received minute-by-minute updates on her progress through the hospital, who she had greeted and taken pictures with, who had gotten autographs, and all sorts of ridiculous stuff. At 1030 she got to the door. There was a knock, and the lieutenant opened the door and ushered her in. By that point I half expected him to lay down on the floor so she could walk across his body.If he had, he would have been trampled to death by the horde that followed her. A pair of photographers followed her into.
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