She certainly didn’t take it as well as I had hoped and first slapped me then called my all the names under the sun. I guess I could have expressed ...yself more eloquently but nerves got the better of me and now I have no idea where I stand, apart from the back of the house where I’m having a quiet smoke while I reflect on the events of the evening. It’s getting late; she’s been out for a long time now, but I think I hear a car. Yes, taxi probably. Might be her. I think it’s stopping – I better. ’ Nicholas didn’t understand why there was even a question about it. ‘I can’t. The insurance company say they need to review the request, they can’t give an answer for three days.’ ‘Three days? But you said she needs it now.’ The nurse nodded, intensity burning in her eyes. ‘Exactly. She needs it now. The sooner the better.’ ‘How much is it?’ ‘It’s thirty-two hundred dollars.’ ‘Thirty-two hundred? Like three thousand two hundred?’ He was shocked. ‘I’m afraid so. I can’t tell you how. Richards strode toward her with a few of the younger students- all carrying boxes. She looked away from him disrespectfully as she buttoned her blouse back up.Richards was smirking upon seeing her dressed again. What's the point, Sweetie? He thought in his dirty mind. You're going to be naked with your legs spread in a few minutes. "We're going to need a few moments, Miss Yoder," he said authoritatively. "Why don't you go get a drink, relax and take a short walk. We'll be resuming in another. Then Treeya stroked the mare with a strip of leather tarp attached to a long pole.Sheel explained that Treeya had told her that the noise and feel of the tarp would prepare the horse for any human-caused movement, flapping of clothes and the like. The mare twitched at first, but soon got used to it. That done, Treeya petted, leaned against, hugged and draped herself over the mare. Then much to my shock, within three hours of picking the untamed mare out of the group in the pen, Treeya did.