I apologise profusely, I was unavoidably detained. The other reason for my lateness is stopping off to settle the account at the Randolph. I should ap...logise again for the circumstances I left you in. But you coped admirably as I knew you would. Mrs Machin was most understanding, once I explained about 'the vagaries of business'"."Is that what it truly was Ned, business matters?" Matters that arose subsequent to business, to be more precise." Holmes smiled."Well, I personally doubt that. It is. I told her I hadn't tried it yet either and I kicked off my boots and got on it with her. I slid over right next to her and lay down flat for a minute too. I gave her a couple of minutes just in case she wanted to go first but when she just lay there talkin about how good it felt I decided to see if anything else around here felt good.I rolled toward her onto my side and raised my head up to kiss her and I knew when I did that she had been waitin for me to take the bait first. She wrapped her. By this time she didn’t even know who I was anyway. I found visiting difficult because with my eyesight I could no longer drive, and it was a forty mile round trip to the nursing home, not easy when your only means of transport is a bike. But as I said, there really wasn’t much point if she didn’t know who I was, and it was only a matter of time... After a week or two I received a visit from a woman from the local council. Now, I’m not that keen on council employees at the best of times, which. It was here she would meet the man who would become her new master. The idea was both thrilling and frightening. To be given away to a total stranger was the fulfillment of a long-held fantasy, but now that it was becoming real, the idea made Jennifer tremble.The door of the large, impressive home was unlocked. As the note instructed, she proceeded directly to the receiving chamber at the end of the main hall. It was a room of modest scale, dominated by a low, massive table. The sight of the.