”“Substantial other things?” Meredith asked.“Probably mutual funds, investments, trusts, and the like.” Denise told her.“When you say subs...antial, how substantial are we talking?” Meredith asked.“What did your father do for work?” Denise asked.“He was an operations manager for a private security company,” Meredith told her.“Knowing what I do about private security and what they’re paid, I would say that substantial would mean multiple investments or cash totaling more than one million dollars.”. I'd heard of cold turkey before but I'd been told it was dangerous and as often as not, killed the person undergoing it, but the way mum was then, she'd have been better off dead.I stood up slowly from the table where I'd been eating my dinner and looked at the pleading in her eyes, then I hit her,I did it right, thank God and she dropped like a stone, she hardly weighed a thing as I picked her up and walked upstairs with her in my arms.The screaming began as soon as she woke up and saw the. "You need help, Cecily. You've been ill. It's an illness of the mind. Why else would you have tried to throw yourself in the river? I've looked after you. I've cared for you and yet you keep disappointing me and I don't like it. Things must change, Cecily. Things must change a lot."She tried to focus, and there were tears in her eyes. She could see the Major - Albert; ah yes, and also the doctor; and two or three others, but what was that behind them?It came into focus. God. She saw it: a. Two snarling German shepherds greeted us and Rebel shied nervously, but daddy dismounted and threw his reins to me,"Heel" he shouted and snapped his fingers, "Heel"Both dogs obediently sat but growled uncertainly at me,"Stay there" daddy said and opening a saddle bag, took out two large and pretty smelly racks of beef ribs,"Give them one each Piper" he said softly, "But keep telling them no until they take it from your hand"If Rebel was nervous, I was terrified and it was one very frightened.