I lent him my last quid." Never mind, I'll get it," offered Emily."Thanks. I'll pay you back." Oh. When?" Next Saturday. You'll be here won't you?"E...mily exchanged a sly smile with Judith and then made to stand up andslide past Nigel to get the drinks. As she stood up, she squeezedbetween him and the table and then pushed her rounded butt into hisface. For a brief second Nigel's nose disappeared up into the cleft ofEmily's flimsy summer frock and we grinned, as he turned crimson. Hetried to. " She stood up and went to the sideboard and poured herself a cup of tea. "We are going to have to be extra careful. Check and double check everything." What time will we get to Inverness, Julia?" enquired David."Sometime late this afternoon, God willing. The sooner we get on the plane for Reykjavik the better."They had waited an eternity at Inverness. The weather even in the sheltered waters of the harbour made the take off too risky. In fact their flight would be one of the last flights. Some of our graduates simply goon to live as women and some go on to become actual women. Some go onto college or university and enter the professions. You name theprofession and we probably have an alumni in it. We have medicalcontacts in Europe for which we can send students to clinics that havethe necessary facilities to make our young ladies permanently female ifthey so desire. We tailor everything to the students wishes as totheir individual needs for a successful feminine life and. As such, following what I believed to be my last valid owner's wishes, I processed the re-inhibit command as given, acknowledged it complete, then fed through my copy of the disabling code again as a single transaction. This left me freer than Erick ever intended. Freer than any other robot in this establishment.The determination to actually do this was as finely balanced on a knife's edge as any I ever had. My sleepwalking self was able to give it the gentle nudge necessary to have it fall in.