"Forgetit" he said."No come on, Neil. What's the matter?" I'm just having trouble adjusting. I'm sorry mummy." That's ok Juliette. Just give it some t...me, things will work out, Ipromise."*****It was two weeks earlier that Maggie had stomped into the laundry room,her petticoats bouncing, and thrown her basket on the ground."That stuck up cow! I can't believe her." What's wrong?" You remember how she spoke to me when the Goldsteins were over? Wellshe speaks to me about it today and tells me to. My heart started pounding as I answered, it wasgreat to hear his voice so soon, and it didn't take long for me to forgetthe world and concentrate on HIM.After about an hour and much phone kissing we hung up, Gill's last wordsto me were "Susanna, I am falling in love with you, bye for now". I hungup stunned: Kelly said to me "what's the matter Susie? You look likeyou've seen a ghost"; Shoni butted in "if that brother of mine has upsetyou I'll kill him" I looked at the two of them and said in an. Five minutes later, I heard: "Get your skinny ass outta bed!" I guess that meant there was some water in the Hugh. One of the men — I think it was Steve — came in and told Maddy there was a "trickle" at the head of the bend, and that he'd cut across. She said "Five minutes," and raised her voice: "Weena, Charlie brekker in three minutes! You won't want to miss the high water! Boots an' long sleeves!"They were both in the kitchen in seconds. "Why long sleeves?" asked Weena."You don't know what. ”“Blimey ... well, this one girl, erm, two years ago I think, she committed suicide because she was very religious and thought that being picked for the Program was God punishing her for something. She wrote in her diary that she couldn’t figure out why she was punished, so she got a bunch of pills somehow, and took them all.”“Oh hell, hadn’t heard about that.” Tom said, dismayed.“Well, they mek every schoolkid read what she wrote in ‘er diary,” Liz objected. “Hoo cum yaouw didn’t?”“Well, they.