She was no more than eighteen and cute as a button.She smiled and I handed her my card and gave her a twenty-dollar tip on top of the price of dinner....I heard the door open behind me and Kim walked out nude as the girl smiled and asked me,” Are you regimental under your kilt sir?”Kim reached over and lifted my kilt showing the girl I was and she blushed.” If you want you can touch it!” Kim said as she undid my kilt and let it drop to the pavement at my feet. The girl reached out and wrapped her. When we stop, we run inland and quick! We're somewhere just south of Kelibia. We need to secure some wheels and move West. From there ... we'll figure it out." Anna glanced out toward the rapidly approaching shore. "Grab the gear and get set against the bow. Like I said, this might be a bit rough." Why are we stopping?"Lauren pulled the car over to the side of the narrow road. It took several seconds before she could loosen her tight grip on the steering wheel and put the car in park. Finch's. The warmair seemed unbearably stagnant without her cheerful presence.After she left, me and the old woman cleaned up the kitchen while mymaid and her father attended to things in the room she was sharing withher daughter. Shortly after we finished cleaning up, my maid and herfather came out with her bag."What's going on?" I asked.My maid gave me a sympathetic look as she said she had to go back home.I shook my head, distressed beyond my own comprehension that this womancould possibly think. They had come from a small town near Torino, and had left the economic and political wasteland of post-war Italy for a better life in North America. The elder Verano brought with him only a few tools and his pregnant wife, Carlotta, when he made his journey.They landed in Montreal, and after giving birth to their son, put all of their combined energies into finding a home in the west, near mountains like the ones they had so loved in their homeland. The elder Verano anglicized his name to Carl.