Once inside their basement Toby's mom saw all his equipments."Please sit down Ms Cameron," Yoshida said to Julia.He was pointing at an armchair that r...sembled execution chairs in prisons. Julia went and sat down there. Behind the armchair were some more mechanical contraptions linking them by wires to the main control panels and computers which Toby started working on."Thank you for volunteering Ms Cameron," Yoshida said to her, as he placed the helmet on her head, attaching her ears and eyes. As she sat there in a modest, grey, woollen dress with its high neck, long sleeves and calf length skirt, George found it almost impossible to imagine that this was the woman that only a few days ago was standing in the hall of this same house, clad in rubber, her face hidden behind a mask, beating his naked backside with a wooden paddle."You have some forms for me to look at, I believe," she said with an expression that implied that butter would not melt in her mouth. She smoothed her skirt. Instead, I gave her one of my business cards and asked to speak with the principal."I'm doing a story on men and women who were struck by lightning twice during their lifetimes," I said."Oh, my," Evelyn said, "you're talking about Coach, aren't you?" Was John Windom a coach at the high school?" I said."He sure was, a football coach. He was a wonderful man," she said, glanced at the business card and added, "Ms. Oakman. Let me check with Mr. Early's secretary to see if he can meet with you."The. Jada felt a pang of nervousness and also a slight pang of guilt. According to their new social custom, the correct response for both of them was to ignore each other’s presence while in the bathroom. If Charles had truly not noticed her, Jada would probably have turned around and come back twenty minutes later. But she was sure Charles had seen her, and in her bathrobe too. It seemed to Jada that to turn back now would be a mild insult to Charles. She would be making a statement she didn’t want.