"So saying Thomas reached over and picked up the bible that sat beside his side of the bed."Now let me see, yes, yes this is it. Read here Mary and be...guided, see Proverbs 'If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small'." Thomas smiled down at Mary patiently."Yes Thomas, I see." Mary said quietly."Good! The answer to all things is in here Mary. We shall speak of this no more. I must go now; the farm will not tend itself." So saying Thomas rose stiffly and limped towards the door.. You can't fool me." Martine had to laugh. "You are absolutely correct. But, I think youhave the right idea." Martine opened the pantry and pulled out the olddog clippers. "I wonder if these still work." "Please Mistress, no! I am begging you." Sonya cried harder. Jack leaned over and forced Sonya to look up at him. "I suggest, pet,that you keep quiet." Sobbing, Sonya said, "Yes Master Jack. I am sorry." Martine plugged in to clippers and turned them on. They worked. She grinnedat Jack and he. As she crossed the short distance between themhe turned to face her and once again their eyes met. She felt like a deer staring into an oncoming truck’s headlights with all shesaw in his eyes. His eyes showed the weight of his past in them, while she had no idea what had happened, his past had beendifficult.*******John was just turning to head for the doors and move on when he locked eyes with her again. The deep brown inthem had golden highlights that he could see now that they were close. She. At the time when I knew him he reckoned he’d found the perfect place to live and so long as nothing happened to the buildings around him, expected to be there for the foreseeable future. From one room in his flat in a high-rise block he could see down into the nurses’ residence of one of the city’s larger hospitals, and from another a park and public swimming pool. He had bought high-powered binoculars and a telescope, using the binoculars to scan for good subjects, then the telescope for.