In the kitchen I sat at the table again with my head in my hands while my coffee cooled.I had behaved badly last night I realised. The poor girl hadn�...�t hurt me, she had just let me know how she had felt with a quiet dignity. I panicked, that was the truth of the matter. I was faced for the first time in my life with someone telling me that they cared for me, not because I was their mother, just because I was me. I should have reacted better to her, let her know I understood and wasn’t angry. “You're human. We haven't had great luck with humans.” He says. “Well no need to get all guard dog off his leash with me. I have no intention of hurting your brother. I'm grateful, you guys saved me.” “I’ll be watching you.” Raphael apparently satisfied slips from the room. He pokes his head back in, gives me a look top to bottom, “I gotta say, nice by the way” He says with a half-smile. “I heard you the first time, you aren’t too bad yourself.” My eyes drop down to his belt line, I returned. At the end of the party we returned to our hotel and Mary talked me into stopping at the hotel bar. We took a table near the back and placed our order. We were on our second drink when I was paged for a phone call. I got up and went to the wall phone to take the call and fortunately from where the phone was I could see our table. The call was from one of my most important customers and getting him to sign an agreement was the sole purpose for this trip so there was no way I could just tell him. She'd buy her father a pack of his favorite tobacco too, if she could find it. She loved having money for little extras, not just the necessities of life.She had walked for a mile or so when she heard a motor- car coming up behind her in the distance. One didn't see too many of them so she knew by the sound. She walked to the side of the curb as the road was quite narrow and then as she thought it was about to drive by, to her surprise it stopped!She looked to her side and it was the stranger!.