I quickly readjust my position, scraping kneels and feet in the process.Holding tight onto my hair, you tell me that I will always be available to you...for inspection. Nodding my understanding, I feel your fingers work again at my cheeks. "This will never do." Standing, you take hold of the leash and pull me to the ladder.Gingerly, I walked on hands and knees to the ladder. With your assistance, I am maneuvered into the inverted "V", my legs hanging below the knees on either side of the ladder.. Ellis, "please sit down."Tina sat. This was not an auspicious beginning."Mr. Jennings and I were speaking of the events that occurred yesterday in his class," she continued. "Did you find anything that was done... objectionable?"Tina was confused. Objectionable? Goddess, no. She was looking forward to today's class. Well, sort-of looking forward to it. Yesterday she'd been blindsided by being dumped into the Program. Today, especially after her evening with Cindy, she thought she'd be able to. The car was filled these agents and a leader from each party. With the incapacacitation of the President, they were taking no chances that this was some plot by cutting off the head of the government."Thompson had a stroke along with his heart attack," Ted Morton said as they settled in. He was Speaker of the House. Gabrielle barely felt the limo moving as it sped across the runway. "He is as good as dead," Ted continued."We've arranged for you to be sworn in by Justice Hay as soon as we get to. Horton if I get the chance. Your mother knows I do it and that you will but she also knows it is like window-shopping. You look and never, never purchase or try on the merchandise. I don't expect you not to look but I do expect your discretion and that you not make it as obvious as you have been tonight." Something else you should know son is that people like Mrs. Horton are always found out. Gossip will start somewhere else and eventually get back to her husband. If he is like most men it will.