And it will work. Do it."When there was a break in the cacophony, he swallowed and breathed deeply. "Are you throwing me out?" The screaming stoppe.... I had a feeling that would work. Martin didn't understand what I understood. He looked at me and whispered, "She's crying? I think she's crying." He went back to talking to her. "Tomorrow night, mom. I promise. I'll be ready for church Sunday morning, and everything will be the same as it was. Thanks, mom." He hung up the phone with a. “Were you not ready?” he said with mock concern. “I’m sorry, you dropped the button and we must begin again.” He smirked behind her back at her predicament as she picked up the button once again and hesitated before pressing it again.He pretended to be polite, but he enjoyed the fact that on his first attempt, he had gotten her to drop the button and had gotten a free stroke in on her. This time, he drew out the stroke, tapping and testing the skin and his aim, before saying several times “Ok. After a few minutes, it seemed like there was some kind of itch at the back of his brain telling him that something wasn’t right. Jerry walked around the car again, looking at it carefully. Everything looked right, but something about it bothered him.From the back of the car, Abe called out, “Hey, I thought lightning didn’t have an ‘e’ in it.”Eddie ran to the back of the car and stared at the name of the car. Sure enough, he had misspelled the name. Slapping his forehead with the palm of his. A few more years of life will see him grow in his understanding that all is not simply black and white. I fear we are treading here, into shades of gray. Those can be hard to discern on occasion," Berandal said heavily."You surprise me! That was a very astute observation for... sorry. I was about to say for one of your station. Forgive me," the duke said, then bowed to Berandal."No offense taken. You know nothing of my past, except that my son stumbled onto a fortune. For all you knew, I was.