She was Elizabeth's staunch ally, and she would act for her niece.At the next stop, whilst the Colonel was making use of a privy, Elizabeth pulled her... spare wax tablet from the valise under the seat and scribbled on it. She handed it to her aunt then who read, "Please hide this for me!". Prudence Fowler nodded sadly and proceeded to hide the tablet under her skirts where not even Colonel Maynard would dare to look for it.Further the coach rumpled and Elizabeth's thoughts meandered on. There. But he never spanked me again, and he never let me hug him for more than a few seconds, and standing up, at that."I just shook my head ... a selfish question came to mind. How is it I attract all these 'needy' women?"Karin, there must be millions of women who have gone through something like that." Yeah, Jake, I'm sure there are and I'm sure a fair number of those are just as screwed up as I am!" Well, yes, I suppose so ... but because of their mothers?"She smiled with a tinge of bitterness on. ." I'm not sure when I decided to tell him the whole story, but before I could stop myself, I told him the entire story of my life of the last year and he hung on every word. When I was finished, he still looked dazed, but he had completely clamed down. "Amazing. You literally learned how to be a woman over a year's time." "Trust me, it's a lot harder than it sounds." "Can you... you know... get pregnant?" He asked weakly. "I suppose. I have never tried. I don't think I will, at least not any. It was only a few moments later that Lofty re-emerged from the room carrying a small bag with a barely noticeable rent in the sleeve of his leather jacket. He left the bar without comment while the women on the podium continued to dance and the prostitutes chatted with those male punters who were rather more susceptible than Lofty to their relatively inexpensive charms.Nobody bothered to enter Manu's private room at the back of the bar for many more minutes. The first person to do so was Miharu.