This place is the end result of that process.” Belinda licked a few crumbs of chocolate from her sticky fingers as she reached for my pot pipe.“Al... right, listen up!” Sheila shouted over the hubbub of conversations, “I’m moving this session to the Lake, follow me!” she said as she set out like the Pied Piper of Hamelin. Like the fabled children of yore, we marched after as she opened the door to the stairway and descended into the underworld below the mountain.“Really? We need to get stoned. It's not a bad idea. He has more money than he knows what to do with. It would be nothing. We've never asked him for anything before." That's because he's an old, nasty miser. There's no chance Ashton." I crossed my arms and stood there as he flicked the light off. I thought it would work but Jason seemed to think it would be impossible. As I climbed in bed and snuggled up next to him, he rubbed my head and told me not to worry. That he would think of something. That he wouldn't let his company. "Have you got over the flu, or whatever the lurgy was which laid you low over the festive season?" Dougie Green asked as he entered my office.He saw the bewilderment on my face. "My wife and I bumped into Suzannah at the New Year's Day concert at Royal Albert Hall. I asked where you were, and she said you had some virus and were confined to bed. She was with your friend Colonel Ledbetter, who had stepped in at the last moment to accompany her to the concert as she particularly wanted to see. Our cash flow is down, and the inefficiencies are starting to build up. I know it's not at all your responsibility, but I wish there were some way you could somehow help out a bit in Accounting." Well, sir, I can't promise anything," Alani said as she felt a new, unexpected eagerness to learn all of the ins and outs of the day-to-day workings of a small company's accounting department filling her pliable mind. "But I'll see what I can do," she concluded, giving him a playful wink before.