I'll miss the birth of your first children. I guess its different for us. First with the exception of Louisa all four of our concubines are now pregna...t, however, none have twins. I expect the fact that we will be living on a border world affected that decision. Having a lot of babies would potentially distract people and we definitely can't have that.And now I hear you are investigating the treatment of concubines. I can guess that has to be depressing. Erica and I were at one briefing two. . mostly, it was the four of them he had turned to for everything. They had been his world.It had been agreed that the four wives would pair up and marry, helping with little things like health care and the like. Financially things were set up so there should be no problem, but they didn't want to take chances. She and Rachel would be first, probably once the funeral was over and things settled one way or another with Violet. Anita and Mei would have to wait, to make it seem more likely it was. On that thought, we sought our beds and sleep.The next morning, we went over to the Stovers house and started preparing for the freezers. Charlie and I went through the barn and found an old generator. We added fresh gas and cleaned the spark plug and started it up. I cut it off. It would handle two thousand watts at one hundred twenty volts. I couldn't find an ampere readout but knew that, with those two numbers, I could figure amperes from formulas on the Internet. I took out my pad that I. “Well, if you’re going to become a harlot...” he’d said, standing fiercely and pointing one accusatory finger at her, “ ... let’s see how much of a harlot ye can be!”With that, he’d started chanting in Latin - she’d backed away, and reached for the door handle. She’d managed to get away, but not before he’d finished.Irene had only studied Latin for a few years, and she was quite rusty, but she’d been able to make out a few words of Father O’Shea’s rant - “whatever they say, you shall become” -.