In those days women rarely drove cars and walked most places. I would go into the woods around dusk, not dark, as I wanted to be seen. One woman in pa...ticular called Pat was my target. She was a 30 something good looking quiet type woman not known to my family which was a plus. It was well known around the area that her husband rarely took her anywhere as he was always out drinking so she would go the nightly bingo game using the park footpath to get there. For weeks I went to those woods and. .. and then she frowned. That couldn’t possibly be right. She knew Jack would never want her to tell anything importantpur... p... ... SAPPHIREto Mr. Hill.“No,” Emily said again. Her frown grew more worried.“Can I have your phone?” Mr. Hill asked.SAPPHIRE“Sure,” Emily said, without any hesitation. She reached into her little purse, pulling out her phone with its gaudy pink fake-jewel encrusted case, holding it out to Mr. Hill.“No,” Mr. Hill said patiently. “The other one.”“Right,” Emily said. It didn't do anything directly about the cancer, but it prevented infection by the virus which seemed to cause 70% of cervical cancers. I'd made it my business to get Sue and her sister on to the test program, and thought her safe. Apparently she was one of the other 30%. Either there was another outside cause which hadn't been discovered yet, or it was built into her genes. I decided to tell her something about my work. I hadn't up to now, because of the bad memories it would have brought. I had a couple of hour's hard work ahead of me but I was looking forward to a nice meal and my date with my Mother.Later"You've finished it all, already?" mum greeted me, "Dinner will be served in about 40 minutes, so, if Sir would like to shower and change ready for an excellent evening I will finalise the preparations and call Sir when all is ready."I headed upstairs to the shower eager to take part in Mum's little fantasy. I took the rose that I had picked from the garden from under my shirt.