" Yes, but...well, it's just embarrassing. That's all." Brian, I'm your sister. I care. You can talk to me. This isterrifying you and you need to ...alk about it, embarrassed or not."Brian sighed. He knew his sister well enough to know that she wasn'tabout to leave this alone."All right," he said, "in this dream, I'm a girl!" That can't be what scared you." That's the embarrassing part, not the scary part." Embarrassed to be a girl? Well, I had no idea I've been continuallyembarrassed these. The family was extraordinarily rich and they had businesses around the globe.The high-ranking British officers considered an invitation to some function under the Shippen banner to be a feather in their cap.I got out of the wagon in the nicely paved courtyard and was greeted at the side door by a huge black man in the uniform of domestic servant and with a speech pattern that sounded more like a Caribbean background rather than mainland or British in origin. He looked over our produce and. Arriving at the villa, Alice was subdued, reminiscing about her time there almost twelve months ago, alone with Lorraine. The memories that came back to her were distant yet sweet. And as her two friends carried her luggage into the villa for her, those memories flooded back. “It is now two in the morning by your internal clock.” Lorraine said, “I think you should sleep and adjust to the jet lag.”Alice replied with the same determination that brought her there, “I can’t, and will not sleep. ”I said that I was really tired and that, in any case, I didn’t think that my Mistress would want me to be playing around when I was supposed to be learning things. It was obviously an excuse that Miss Carson had heard before.“Oh, don’t be coy,” she said. “I’m sure she wouldn’t mind. Besides, I wondered what you looked like out of your uniform.” She stood with her hands on her hips, waiting. I obviously wasn’t going to get rid of her easily. “Go on,” she said.I took off my stockings and.