" "Whatever the problem behind the theft, we can handle it."Samantha said as a metal door panel slid into the wall and Sharonwalked in dressed like s...meone who was filming a second Men InBlack movie. "You'll find your mission wardrobe in the boxes being brought innow." Sharon said as a series of M.I.B dressed men set boxes downin front of them. When Samantha opened the box, she pulled up apink tutu and toe shoes. "What kind of mission outfit is this?" Tina said as she pulled out ablond Shirley. I will get on with it, as you put it, when I feel like getting on with it. I will spank you tomorrow afternoon, in, as you suggested earlier, the drawing room, at 16:00 hours. Do I make myself clear?” “Yes,” she sniffed. Tears were welling. “Good. I have further instructions and, provided you repeat them back to me correctly, I will allow you to stand upright. Do you understand?” “Yes, yes I do,” she retorted; far too quickly. Standing upright was something she dearly wanted to do. And quickly!. ” I tried to communicate. She smiled, eyes glistening, and drove back to her son’s domain.“You don’t look all beautied up.” Mom observed upon my entrance.“I’m more beautiful on the inside, now.” I told her.Days flowed into another week. I had packed the car. Mother make a few final calls to her employees and to her doctor. She was well on her way to recovering, he told her.“The next two months will be easy as pie.” Mom smiled. We climbed in her car and rode off into the sunrise. Mother. With the ease of long practice, Tobias briskly continued on his way without hesitation, citing rapid excuses of, “The coach is leaving now,” and, “Mustn’t keep the Canon waiting,” before that voluble man could open his mouth and keep them both standing there for a full half-hour.Once he had tidied himself and changed into evening dress at the spacious canonical residence and had a convivial conversation with the Canon himself, which made him tentatively hopeful that the powers that be didn’t.