Damned if she didn’t pick up an additional 13 silvers and nine coppers between the two brigands. This was a very profitable morning!We got back to t...wn long before noon, and the bartender was amazed when two heads were dumped onto the bar. “How long before I collect my bounty?” Hippolyte asked.The bartender sputtered a few seconds and said, “I will have it for you by supper time.” Hippolyte nodded her head and walked out to visit the armorer before lunch.This merchant had all sorts of swords. Let me ask you a question.” I continued; “When is what I say going to be worth your listening to it? For the past several dates, you have been, not just inattentive, but almost as if you were on autopilot and nothing I say or do means anything to you. I think that this will be our last date. This assignment is what I need to become a teacher. It will also let you decide if I am important enough to listen to me when I am talking.”“I guess that I deserve that.” She said; “I have been distracted. “…can’t just walk up and ask me something like that!” my father said with a raised voice. It seemed to me he was quite angry. “When will you ever let someone court her, Bret?” The voice was familiar, young, and somewhat deep, and was persistent it seemed. “I don’t want no poor boy like you touching my daughter! That’s the end of it!” I heard my father deliver the ultimatum with vehemence. It scared me a little bit because he has never talked to me in that tone of voice before, and I’ve never. "Did I hear thatright?" she asked when she came back. "A female lead marriage?"Eric felt almost dizzy with humiliation and embarrassment - it was outthere. His sister knew how pathetic he'd become. What was he thinking?!"Em, please," he begged. "Please don't... This is... it's serious. Idon't know what to do. I don't know... how to handle her anymore."Emily sighed.He felt utterly humiliated, devastated, worse than before he called.There was more though, something twisted, because as desperate.