I debated briefly whether to toss it into the garbage unread, but eventually unsealed it and read the enclosed letter. It ran as follows:'If you're re...ding this, you must not hate me completely for putting your life through the wringer. Thank you for believing that I didn't throw away what we had between us on a whim.I've spent a great deal of time since the accident with Nicki. You're probably not surprised that we turned to each other for comfort. We both loved Olivia--and you. I never had to. "What about the Karl Jenkins piece, will you be conducting that?" Emmaasked."No, apparently someone from the visiting school will be doing that." Well that I suppose is something of a relief." I suppose there's no time like now," I said before the conversationmoved onto something else. "Let's move the settee's and do it now andevery evening at about eight." I'll get some music stands while you get your instruments," suggestedLewis."I'll grab your oboe if you help Lewis get some stands," Anna. " Her mother raised her hopes," I said."I guess you're right," said Ashley. "I wonder what Grace found for us." Probably something that is way too expensive. If we are living on her dime I want it to be something cheap and simple." You two ready?" asked Grace as she came in through the patio door. She was wearing a low cut pair of white shorts and a tight pink cutoff shirt. She would cause any guy in the world a raging hard-on in that outfit. As for me, I wasn't gonna be able to get it up for. No detention tomorrow evening, girls, seen as we have found our two little vandals and I assure you that they will be dealt with. Off you go.” Nancy stepped away from the door and smiled as the girls filed out into the corridor and off to their first lesson of the day.The girls, indeed, knew what “dealt with” meant.Anna and Becky arrived outside Mrs. Halliday’s office in the PE block soon after the alarm had sounded to signal the start of the lunch break. Becky Woodley looked at her smaller.