The crowd shudders in unison as a fresh blast of frigid air whistles through the air, the streets, the coats and the already damp blankets of those wa...tching.Smart peddlers mingle with the crowd, attempting to foist everything from food to hope on the gullible and the desperate. Pickpockets slither from group to group, avoiding the notice of their victims, evading the constables with long practiced skill.Men in smart suits stand shoulder to shoulder with coal merchants and cleaners. Women,. A bed was in the room; a bed with pale pink sheets and a pink woolen blanket. On the floor there was a carpet. Blue and red threads had been woven together to make an intricate purplish design. Next to the bed was a nightstand. On it sat a squat pottery lamp and an alarm clock. A large dog, probably a German shepherd, sat, chained, in one corner of the room. It didn’t seem to be awake.He crept over to the door. It was solid oak and had flowers and vines carved into it. He put his hand softly on. Our flight was not until the afternoon so we decided to spend time looking round the estate and then have an early lunch. At the end of the morning we put the cases in the car and drove to the local restaurant area and chose one with seats outside so we could people-watch. The waitress brought us two menus and left us for a while to decide. Just as she was about to come and take our order the bar man held her back and he came to our table. We decided to have a bottle of the house red wine and. I was on the verge of bagging the biggest juiciest contract of anyone’s dreams. Perhaps I was a little over confident, but at the time I didn’t think so. It involved a cabal of businessmen at the corporation where I was working. We were all shifting money around on the markets like it was candy. It was the height of the corporate banking bundling era, and we were in the thick of it. Derivatives were the thing. In the midst of this were these four cheeky businessmen and me. Among the men there.