Seated in the center of the audience were a handful of adults, two of them guys in business suits, and two ladies with clipboards chatting merrily awa...y, and a guy in a sport coat and white shirt who was talking with two teenagers.Martha introduced me to Howard, the guy in the sport coat, who seemed very glad to see her. He was a nice looking guy in his late twenties or early thirties, in dark rimmed glasses, with a flock of unkempt but healthy looking hair and a trim, athletic build. I was. ‘She needs your advice and help, and Lisa’s.’ ‘Then she shall have it.’ I whispered back ‘Why the formal invitation?’ Pushpa’s reply was equally quiet ‘Because she cannot admit openly that she needs you, not this time.’ ‘Thank you, Pushpa, Princess Lisa and I will attend the dinner in our best finery. Are my sword and pistol necessary?’ ‘I don’t think so, Prince Harold.’ Her whisper sounded doubtful. ‘If even the highly intelligent Pushpa is not sure, then I shall wear my sword and pistol with. ”Machamma went home,” she said one day.Machamma was our maidservant. “It isn’t noon yet,” I asked, puzzled. “Isn’t she well?”“I sent her home. For good. She wanted a raise, and I told her she didn’t deserve the amount she claimed. She started shouting at me, accusing me of being… A bad girl, but I guess I lost it when she called you a cheapskate. After what you spent to save her husband. The bitch-“”Language, Neem,” I warned. That was the first time I had heard her call someone that.”Oops!. Every time I just woke up back on the Ship and started all over again. No rest for the wicked, ha, ha.” Daddy put in his opinion of all this.“So I have this vast horde of wealth. Why can’t I just buy what I need on the open market and put it together with your help Wendy?” Eric demanded.“You probably could Eric, but who would you save. On the average you live to the ripe old age of 90+, your sisters on the average live to 80+.”“I guess I should ask Daddy how well old age goes before we go any.