When it was complete, Tomknew he was out another forty-five dollars.The next morning after another restless night, Tom got up early andcompleted the '...evotional' task again. Before she had logged out thenight before she had made it perfectly clear that for now this would bethe morning task and the 'Oral servitude and worship' task would be donenightly immediately following his two hours of oral practice.Tom was relieved to wear his normal clothes and not his 'uniform' asPrincess Dee had called. Perhaps I killed your husband in battle or he wounded me."She drew a quick breath then stopped breathing for a second. She saw him killing her husband, shooting him, stabbing him. She had never before had that image."No. I didn't mean... But you have to kill. It's war." And that keeps me a good man, right? I can kill and be 'good' for you. Oh yes I see your little bourgeois mind working, Frau. You are feeling warm toward me, so you want to imprison me on your good side. Are you so certain I am. And how many votes did Grace Carlisle lose by in the elections - 250. - You can't be suggesting that all the men voted for Simon James, and all the women for Grace - it just doesn't work like that, people aren't so sexist.- Yes, that is what I'm suggesting. But enough of these examples - the difference I'm, sorry, we're going to make has got to start somewhere, and it may as well be with the small things too. We've got a vote for the head of the neighbourhood watch committee tomorrow right?-. Thank God the girls are away for the weekend, one at an all weekend sleep over, and the other on a school-debating trip, at least they are warm.Another bill to face, but it can't be avoided. The Service Company has been called and they assure me that, while the regular staff is off for the weekend, they have a part time person on call that they will dispatch as soon as they can reach him. As I look out the kitchen window at the frozen landscape I marvel at how closely it matches my feelings.