"Heads nodded gravely."So here's what we want to do. I laid it out. Hovering in the background was my Dan.Mister Bartley turned to him. "You're being ...wfully quiet, Mister Granger."He laughed. "A wise man lets his wife talk. A good engineer defers to the expert." And Mizz Nikki's the expert?" Yep! All this is hers." What's your part of the project?" A chauffeur. A PE stamp. A more mature face for people that need to see mature faces." I WAS one of those until an hour ago," he said. "That. I ended up drinking two cups while we talked.We talked about Birgit, about Becky, about Melanie, and about Jennifer.“How much emotional trauma can one guy take?” Mary asked. “Aren’t you close to breaking?”“I broke down on Saturday, on Sunday, and again yesterday. I asked my dad about seeing a therapist or counselor, and I’m going to do that. There’s something dark and evil that rose up in me that scares me. What really bothers me is that I liked it. On Sunday, my mom got it full force and the. Less. Almost… ‘Hey.’ Em taps my shoulder and I nearly fall out of my stool for the third time. Damnit! ‘Ready to go?’ Her eyes don’t miss a thing and they certainly don’t shutter. She clears her throat and that one sound says she knows exactly what was happening and is totally fine with it. ‘Bar’s closing, and we should probably head back to the hostel.’ ‘Oh. Right.’ My voice couldn’t be more sober if I was at a funeral. I turn back to Leo and give him an apologetic smile. ‘Looks like I. So for each visit Petra and Larry would bring the ogre a piece ofwomen's clothing.They would have to haunt the second hand stores in town to findsomething large enough for the ogre to wear. Petra bought whatever shecould find in a size twenty four. She also bought the ogre some cologneand a cosmetic kit that was on sale. The ogre was so enthralled withthe twins that he took their suggestion and finally bathed!Each and every time the children visited the ogre, he became a littlemore refined;.