I motioned to my wife that I would see Emma out of the house. When we reached the front door I opened it and followed Emma outside. I closed the door ...ehind me so we would not be heard by my wife. Emma kept walking towards her car before turning to look at me. ‘Don’t push me,’ she said. ‘The results would be disastrous for you.’ I didn’t say anything, I just nodded in reply. That night was filled with wonder as to what Emma and my wife talked about and how much my wife knew. Did she know. A Goldfinch landed, fed a little at it’s Nyger seed then waited.The old lady was mesmerised with the amazing relationship between avians and humans, then even more so when Lyn stooped and retrieved the long green vegetable and reinserted it from where it had fallen, still balancing birds and seed in one hand. The rain shower deteriorated, soon a heavy downpour, Lyn not caring, she was doing her own thing as Sybil realised and keeping a careful eye outdoors, made and ate her breakfast. She. Mum and dad both worked so my sister and I were home alone after school until they came home. Sometimes after school Pam would bring a boy home and they would go up to her bedroom. I could here giggling and moaning going on but at that age didn't really know what was happening. One day I asked her what she was doing with the boys after school. She laughed and said 'I'll show you. I'm going to my bedroom. When I call you come up" I waited for her to call wondering what was in store and when she. As much as she had come to appreciate the magic within her thin dagger, it was too much. She held it in her hand thinking it was too much. And then..........she got up, went to her things, got 6 cloak pins and found the kitchen boy. "Take these to the blacksmith and tell him I want them pounded as thin and narrow as possible into 1' pins and yet have strength. Excess metal make into additional pins. Temper and sharpen one end." In the tool shed she found pliers, 3 braziers, a poker with.