He turned to Mrs. Pembleton and said, “Seriously, Caroline has told me so much about you and your wonderful school that I knew we had to have you co...me. If your other students become but half of what Caroline is, then England is a most blessed place indeed.”“Silver tongued devil, isn’t he?” she remarked to me, then Mrs. Pembleton gave James a brief hug and a kiss, then turned back to me for another, as well. Then she pulled away and set me back at arm’s length, saying, “Now, let me get a good. His Rolex watch, a piece of jewelry that attracted Mark's unaccustomed eyes again and again, was heavily encrusted with diamonds and gave Mark the definite impression that he was dealing with a man of exceptional economic power and considerable vanity."Mark," Sid said after a long dissertation. "I'm disappointed that you didn't bring Desirée with you this time."Mark saw a gleam in Sid's eye and a furtive glance in his direction from al-Mazkum."I didn't think it appropriate to bring her. We soon got to her house, where she lived with her mum and step dad, opening the door her mum made a general fuss over her and soon she was sat on the sofa with a drink as was I, her mum telling me all about her. She was Zoe, 22, and usually had an attack about once a week. Her mum left us and Zoe said “I just want to be normal”.I smiled and as we talked she seemed lonely, so I offered to take her out the following Thursday to which her mum agreed. Thursday came round and I was again in her. (CarrieGore) Just another fun episode in the Fictionmania meltdown logs and probably another 100 e-mails in Mindy's inbox! Ouch!(Mindy) I had to reboot the server, all should be okay now, with 83 e-mail messages it took me a few minutes to understand we had a serious problem!(Bashful) What was your first clue?(Mindy) Your message Bashful.(CarrieGore) Wow! I thought I was exaggerating with 100, but that was pretty close.(Chrissy) My connection speed to chat was really slow, did anyone else have.