We spent about an hour driving around town while I showed her all the"Hot" spots. It didn't register at the time but later that evening Irealized that... although I have a big car, and the top was up, she satright next to me.I remembered it that night after supper, which she made. She was alwaysa good cook but what she made was simple but good.I have lots of packages of Ramin noodles, she cooked a couple ofpackages and opened a can of Stewed Tomatoes and mixed them making agood meal. After the. Fear grew in her and she started imagining all sorts of possibilities. The more she thought, the more frightened she became. Nichole could be in with a bunch of white-slavers! She could find herself drugged and shipped off to a life of prostitution and depravity. The frightened young wife went around checking the locks and the windows and trying to remember where the gun was that Hank had left behind with instructions on how to use it. She had never liked guns and hadn't really listened to her. Except for this online friend of mine. No webcam, nothing really personal, but we've had our sessions, and they sure were nice. And now, finally, I talked her into meeting me. She was single, she claimed, and so was I.The place was empty, as usual, and that's why I liked it. I was a regular there, so when I walked in and didn't sit at my old spot and took a table for two instead, I got asked, "The usual?" Yes, for now," and my double Jack and the papers appeared. No questions either although. The main gate, together with the postern gate, bolted and barred at night; men trained in the use of firearms, and the cackling, squawking, night guard of a flock of geese, were enough to warn, delay, and fend off any attack like the one launched by Ashby de La Zouche that had resulted in the death of Annette Blanchard.Incidentally, I received ‘birthday present’ on my thirty sixth-birthday from Eloise de La Zouche. This also made veiled threats to me and my family, and I fully expected the same.