The senior officer remembered the Carstairs Estates were mentioned quite often as the biggest losers and both the senior Sir Lionel and his son Jeffre... lost both their estates and their family fortune. Jeffry's wife Priscilla left him for a wealthy Member of Parliament and had him evicted from her family estate. Sophia felt closure on her naïve love affair with her first love and showered her mentor and soul-mate Captain Morgan. The birth of her son, Edward, made her closer than ever to her new. All the while Lottie chatted about the time she and Sally and Rachel and Pauline had gone to see some crappy boy band she was keen on. Bloody hell! When would she grow up and listen to decent music?At least it wasn't as excruciating as that time when his mum had brought back that accountant who worked in the City. On that occasion, Chris really hated the man, who reminded him so much of his dad and the way he'd go on about how Chris should cut his hair, study harder and get a girlfriend. He was. We could just see the Leopard. It had landed in a pit. I mean the whole thing was in a hole.As I was the closest thing we had to a Ostcout that made me the Recon Mech. I did a slow sweep of the area. I could make out a Shadow Hawk and a Griffin on the near side and two Phoenix Hawks on the far side of the pit. The most amazing thing was that they were all four powered down. Four guard Mechs that were acting like statues. They couldn't move, couldn't fight, couldn't do anything, they were just. He opens the French doors for me, and I enter the study. The aroma offine cigars is always the first thing I notice; it endures in this room, eventhough I seldom see him smoke. It is a large, airy room, with bay windows thatopen to the park across the street. The walls are lined with book cases, filledto the brim with books in all kinds of bindings, from leather, to cloth,hardcover and paperbacks. I do not know in how many languages. I recognizedEnglish, French, Spanish and German. A Persian.