She seems to have switched to the more personal tone that she uses after they have slept together. “Maybe it is for the better. Being with someone t...hat reminds you so much of your mother may not be a good thing.”Alan has already been thinking the same thing. He has also wondered why Kennedy even pushed for him to push for it. Maybe it is like his relationship with the therapist. Maybe it is why she has told him that there could not be a relationship beyond what they have now. Without another. `I saw your lights… do you have a phone?’`No. no phone,’ I replied in my [at that time] hesitantEnglish.`Ask him in and close the door!’ said Lu, in ourlanguage. The man had to duck his head to enter and hetook up about half of the interior with his bulky body.Lu asked him to remove his coat and sit, and we sharedour food with him.He wore an expensive suit under his coat, and anexpensive looking gold wristwatch.He was big and loud and foreign, but he told us storiesof. “Go and bend over and grab the seat again, missy,” the guard ordered. Becky turned and looked at the guard standing close to her. The other guard handed over the cane. Becky looked across at her Mum who still had her nose pressed against the wall and just about saw her Mum shake her head in despair. Becky looked back at the guard and walked over to the seat she had already had to bend over to be caned. She bent down and grabbed the chair, sticking her bottom out again, and waited. This time she. .. I gave up paying attention to Sid and Ingrid for a moment, and just enjoyed looking out at the harbor whose water that had that tropical blue glow, and at the palm trees and fruit trees and vines that covered the shore and the hillside.The native Fijians have a reputation for laziness, or so I'm told. So even though there were plenty of people living here, the Brits brought in workers from India to slave away for them. They just never were successful getting the natives to want to cut cane,.