"Sure?" I'm fine. What is going on?" I'm doing something I should have done awhile ago." What is it?" Anne asked but her daughter had gone. The front ...oor closed and she turned to her husband, who had put his newspaper down and watched as his daughter ran past the lounge window.There was a whimper by her feet and she looked down to see baby Lara stretching and opening her eyes."Well you said," George Dayton muttered, but his wife sneered."I am doing dinner," she told him and passed him the bag.. Manning collared a youngish looking man, he was dressed well but looked as though he'd had a pretty heavy session. "You know of a brass house round here," she ventured, hoping to quell the need that was threatening to overcome her. "Pardon?" Her would be assistant was clearly a little worse for wear. "A brass house, you spawny little wanker. Somewhere one gets their end away."Manning's tone turned needlessly high-brow as if to make a point. "Sorry bruv, I didn't get you first time out.. . he sort of pushed us both into the water so ... so ... we both got all soaked and Kate let me use some of her dry clothes when it was time to come home.”Jessie Harper did not turn around to look at her mother as she spoke but just stared at herself in another mirror on the landing. As she was looking at herself and replying to her mother’s questions she suddenly had a very brief thought flash through her mind. It was a thought that lasted the mere briefest of seconds but the legacy it left in. An MP officer checked their IDs and told them to go to a tent set up near the entrance to the seating area.“Ladies, sir, I was told that you’re the guests of the general. The officer in the tent there will show you where to go.”They were taken to a balcony that was centered on and elevated above the seating area; it overlooked the field and had about thirty seats. It was surrounded by a low wooden railing.“Mrs Denison, Miss and Mr Denison, you and your guest may sit here. General Markus will be.