Than, seated in the dark, her hand found the way to the swelling under the cloth of my trousers where her fingernail scratched now and then at the ve...y right place.We were taking care not to let me explode.Another afternoon some weeks later Margot gave me a fonecall from the school to announce a gettogether of the teachers in a nearby bar, to celebrate the birthday of one of them.Her husky voice asked me bluntly:"The day has come?" When I said "Yes!" with my hart beating in my drumming ears,. Are they trail markers, like to point you to the house?' 'Well not exactly. No, not quite.' 'What then?' Now I was going in for the psychological kill. 'You're not the first woman I've had here, you know. You don't think you're the first one, do you? Her face screwed up but she still wasn't worried, not anywhere near as worried as she should have been. She still had the gun. (That she couldn't fire.) 'What? What are you talking about?' 'I've had. He knew he was about to puncture that. "Where are you?" Umm, Mum, we're running away."There was silence over the phone. He continued, suddenly clogged up with tears, and he knew that his mum would hear it. "I'm sorry, Mum, I'm really sorry. It wasn't meant to be like this. I love you all deeply, you know that."He could almost hear her pull herself together. "I know that. Do you have to run?" I don't know. What I know is that if we run, we can come back. If we don't run..." Yes, you're right.. I nodded my head and went to sleep. I woke up in the afternoon and found food on the table. I ate it up and went back to sleep. Around 8 I got up and a waiter came and kept food on the table.He was gone immediately and I stuffed myself with food and had a bath. After the bath, I sat on the sofa thinking about everything. It was around 9 when the manager arrived. I moved to the bed and the manager stopped me. He asked me to sit on the sofa.He sat near me and started to tell me what he has.