" Thank you" she told him, and released the intercom.Silence."I'm sure it'll go down by then." he told her."I'm really sorry about this. Really." and ...he was.She liked Gary, it was really nice to meet someone so funny and so utterly separate from her life in the music industry. He was exactly the kind of nice, normal guy she needed in her life."It's okay, it's weird, but it's very cool that you're willing to do this for such a good cause. That takes a lot of, um, gumption? Is that the word?" It. Then he opened his Bible and read:"...ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea,and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth."He placed his Bible on one of the chairs on the front row beforecontinuing. "The Jews had nothing to do with the Samaritans. They wouldnot spend the night in Samaria. They would travel several miles around itif they needed to go to Galilee from Judaea. Jesus did though. He ate anddrank with them and taught them. The Jews who became. All right under the noses of the vicar and his flock. Simon's phone vibrated twice, message received. Robin was in the gent's and all was clear.....he's waiting for me.Glancing at my husband, seeing his warm smile, returning it. Standing up slow and steady, trying not to be noticed, we're right at the back but I still feel like all eyes are on me. There's no break or hesitation in our vicar's words as he delivers this week's sermon, I breathe a little easier.We've done this before and I can't. They reached the front entrance to his mansion... It was a huge grey stone building covered in ivy, two huge stone urns on each side of the front door planted with tall topiary trees. Tall lilac and rhododendron trees framed the sides of the impressive building. Soames unlocked the huge, heavy dark mahogany door. He helped his master carry her in. They carried her up the long winding dark wood staircase and placed her onto his big canopy bed in his bedroom chamber. He quickly undressed her.