"And likewise, you have to meet Mum. And Dad and Molly." Happily," George said. "As long as it doesn't stop us from fulfilling the main purpose of thi... weekend."Jennie looked questioningly at him. "As in?" As in creating occupants for the nursery," he replied, removed the breakfast table from the bed and leapt onto Jennie.After having told her delighted dad and Molly, Jennie rang her mom. Not on the landline for fear of getting Harold, but on her mum's cell-phone. Vera answered on the seventh. “Don’t bother ladies, I’ve heard Miss Driscoll has already got her claws into him” announced one woman, whose pearl necklace and conservative dress sense perfectly encapsulated the archetypal chairwoman of a small town Board of Governors.“Oh yes” replied the woman next to her. “I was dropping Johnny off at school last month and I saw it with my own eyes”.“She’s absolutely insatiable isn’t she?” whispered another. “My friend from yoga lives in the flat next door to hers and she can barely sleep. Know, too, that Colin shares both your desires and your anguish at the knowledge that they cannot be fulfilled.Why doesn't that make me feel any better, Moira thought at the MI.It is not designed to make you feel better. The primary purpose of this exercise is to reconcile conflicting emotions - not make them less painful.I don't suppose you have a way of making them less painful?No, and even if we did, it would not be advisable to use it. You humans are complex mechanisms, and though we have. Start again. Be grateful that there are a dozen people in there that care a great deal about you and that’s the best therapy you can possibly get.’ I sat there and thought about her comments. She was right of course. The divorce was final! This part of my life was over and I would have to start again. It was almost Christmas and I had a bunch of people who really cared about me. That was the best remedy I could expect or want. As I turned toward her, she began to open the door and get out of.