The girl said that we could wait in the back room by the fire, it being such a cold night. In the room another couple were also waiting. I sat Trish d...wn on the couch next to them and I took the only other seat, a rather battered armchair. We had only been there a couple of minutes when the young girl came and told the other couple that their cab had arrived. The warmth of the room and comfort of the old chair soon made me drop off to sleep. I ‘came to’ and as I opened my eyes, I could see a. Being in California, the Mansion had the requisite swimming pool and Jacuzzi, and was designed like a Swiss chalet, with steep sloping roofs of high peaks. The ceilings were seventeen feet tall in the public rooms, dropping to 'only' 14 feet in the bedroom wings.Of course, the kitchen was huge, with industrial fixtures, a floating island counter that could be rolled about, seemingly miles of counter space, and the walk around fireplace in the sunken living room was large enough to roast an ox.. "Tea for myself and my guest, girl." At once, highness," she said getting immediately to her feet and scampering off."This is splendid," I said, gesturing to the room's extravagant carvings."Thank you, Mr Lawrence. Of course it is little compared with the home I will have on my return to Kushia." The girl reappeared carrying a small tray with glasses of tea. She set them down on the table between us and left without waiting to be dismissed. The Kalinin watched her go with a sigh. "So difficult. .. Wheels and a driver, you said." I did, but I didn't mean it like that."The white-headed man asked, "Just what were you meaning?" You know how most highway jobs have one yellow hat digging and eight or ten white hat engineers watching?" I've mentioned that to my wife more than once," he agreed, "So?" Well, here we have a whole bunch of white hats ... that's them ... trying to explain to the slave driver ... that's you ... why they don't know where your bridge went." Well, do you know where.