I reluctantly released Carol's breast, quietly arose from our pallet and wandered outside to take care of my necessaries.As I approached the outhouse ...that sat behind the rough hewn wooden shack, I was struck once again by how many things in the future mirrored things in my times. Thinking about the time I came from led to thoughts of my family and friends back in the nineteenth century. How long, I wondered, would it be before I saw them again? My sainted mother was elderly for the times in. But only a week later Lucas told Lena that he had checked their account about an invoice and noted that she had taken a strange amount from their account.Lena almost panicked and made up a rather silly explanation about how she had owed Anne that money for gambling on horses since they came home from their trip.Some days later, Lucas told her that he was interested in a trip to the Canary Island, La Gomera, for the whole family, and asked Lena about the island. As he had expected, what she told. Paulo of course agreed and not to be a spoilsport, I went along with the requirement.Three very intensive sessions followed that were grueling and gut-wrenching. Still, I was hoping that nothing would come of this ordeal. Over the next several months Jean did contact us from time to time, but thankfully, never with any good news.One Friday afternoon, we got a call from Jean, asking if she could pop in at six that evening. She told us that twin boys had been orphaned, after a horrific car. Aften a minute or so she gave her next command:'Yeah Jamy and now join the ring finger and the small finger, both'. Her tightness hurt my fingers a bit, it was hard to get them in, I had to push really hard to get the small finger in as well. She seemed to like it though, breathing heavier all the time, holding my wrist and making my hand rotate. 'And your thumb? Put it underneath the middle and the ring finger and move up the hand. Only when your fingers are completely in, I massage your.