I am going to make a businessman out of you if it kills me.’ she added laughing. I got out of the car and she climbed over to the driver seat that d...rove back to the house to change her clothes. I changed into my working gear and then went out to give the lads an overdue lunch break. That evening I kept my promise to Mum, we took her new car and drove out to the Ship Inn at Burcombe and I bought her dinner. I would have invited Emma as well but she was out somewhere with her friends. Mum looked. Fred's old bedroom-the one he'd occupied as a boy.I'd seen that bedroom before. His mother had kept it maintained like a shrine, carefully preserving its adolescent ambience as though she fully expected Fred to someday return to his senses and decide to be fifteen again.The room's reminder of my husband's neurotic tic to his mother was something I didn't relish encountering, but after coming up empty-handed in the rest of the house I felt I had no choice.The door was closed. I thought of. ?Just then, Matt, Saff and Issy came out of his room. Issy said, ?Hi,Perry. This is Matt, my nephew.? Matt smiled and rolled his eyes,having heard this from everyone the past two days. ?And this is hisgirlfriend Saffron.?Perry turned to Fi and said, with a laugh, ?This is quite the menagerieyou have here, Ms. Walters. Three teenagers and this one barely awoman herself.? He smiled at his double entendre.She laughed, ?Tell me about it. Matty, introduce yourself.?Matt was wearing a. He was also, she had to admit, exceedingly handsome, and suited the costume of the early nineteenth century very well indeed.“It’s very kind of you to answer my questions,” said Frederick gratefully, putting down his teacup. “You must get thoroughly fed up being asked the same things again and again.”“Not at all,” smiled Jane. “The opportunity to entertain such a handsome gentleman as yourself is a welcome distraction.”This seemed like an ideal opportunity to move the situation along a little..