”“Terrific you say?”“Absolutely.”“Okay,” and that said, Olivia took the phone and dialed her number.“Hi Nadia?”“Olivia ... yeah ...... say remember the other day when Reese and me were in your kitchen and like you were so horny and all?”“Yeah---yeah ... anyways, we um, met this guy and ---and I think you and him would hit it off pretty good. Yeah he is ... much older ... maybe 40 or so.”Olivia’s face turned scarlet, and I had a good idea what Nadia had asked her.“Um, no---no nothing like that.. He held no small grudge against Harriet’s mother for keeping him uninformed of the reasons for Harriet’s marriage. On the other hand, he owed Sir Richard and his wife a lot for their help in his early career. Mostly, however, he knew that there was no valid excuse for turning down the invitation. Sir Richard must know that he was sitting around waiting for orders. He therefore wrote a brief billet acknowledging and accepting the invitation.He was apprehensive when he arrived at the Lamberts’. I’ve been thinking about this for a long time and still am not sure if I’m doing the right thing by mentioning it.”I could tell she was struggling with whatever she wanted to say. “It’s okay, Jackie. We’ve worked together for three years. You can talk to me about anything.”“Okay, but this is still hard to talk about.”“Don’t worry. Go ahead.”“Well, a few months ago I noticed that your niece, Brigitte, was scheduling a lot of appointments. I found that to be odd, so one day I sat in my car in the. "Can't I help her Andy?" I'm so sorry Izzy, there's nothing we can do for your mum. I'd rather you remembered her as she was, he battered her rather badly, it's lucky you hit him when you did." Hit him, I wish I'd killed him." Well I suppose the police won't check to hard about how far apart two blows were. How about using the brass dog between his legs, that would be poetic justice." Yes please Andy, can I do it now?" Of course you can." I took her by the hand and we went back to the man, I.