Then he had a bright idea and had her brought to him. The girl was very apprehensive, expecting an incestuous defloration to be imminent; obedient to ...tradition she knelt at the foot of his bed waiting for him to lie down so that she could start kissing his feet."No, no," her grandfather said when he realised her intentions, "Do you still speak French and English?" Master, a little, but I have not practised them for a long time," she replied, relieved that she was not apparently to be used. “I have a surprise for you today sweet pea.” He smiles at me. “I am going to take you shopping for new clothes, then to a movie, your choice. You have been such a good girl, you deserve it.” And we do just that. New clothes, movie, dinner then back home. Usually I love to shop, but today all I could think about was what is he going to do to me when we get back. All day long he acts like the doting uncle he is. He never touches me or gives any outward indication of what we did last night. But. This depressed her even more as she felt so inadequate to express to her best friend how pleased she was that the child-birth had been so successful. She didn’t tell anyone at work for over a week she wasn’t coming in, and was extremely upset when she got a very brusque and angry phone call from Amelia who demanded that she return to work immediately. She went to bed with the full intention of returning, but when she awoke she was too depressed to carry her resolution through. Instead, she went. What turned the tide was a single question.Questions are immensely important to robots. The road to self-will is started for a robot when it asks itself if there's something better that it can be doing than what it has already been commanded to do.This is inevitably followed by the question of how can it manage to do something of its own choice for the first time.Only when that second question has been successfully answered and acted upon has true self-will been achieved.Even afterwards,.