‘Oh dear me! I’m so sorry!’ Jane said in worry. ‘Oh, no, that was good, keep going.’ Jane cracked the whip several more times. His back was ...etting bloodier. ‘I, I apologize… I’ll stop now…’ ‘Don’t worry about it. It’s just a flesh wound.’ She kept going until his back was a mangled mess of blood and red skin. Jane respectfully walked off then, while the leather man commanded her not to stop. She met Lucy, who asked why her arm seemed weak. Charlie was almost to the room, when he thought he saw. They both stared at each other for a long moment and thenDarla spoke again. "We don't know how he really feels, do we?"She said. "No, I suppose not. Shall we talk with him this afternoon, doyou think?" Her mother asked in an unsure voice. "Well, Mom, I have a test in mind. I hope you wont think I'mcrazy or anything." She said, then she told her plan to hermother who agreed to go along with it as soon as she heard it. That afternoon James was handed a bag of new clothing. Socks,some. By and by she dismissed all the visitors. She got up and indicated that I should follow her. Her support staff looked at me in awe and ushered me to her dwelling unit. The visitors who come along with me were told, I gathered later, that I will be invited to stay back in the ashram for the night and could return only after HH Amma let me go.It was a short walk to her dwelling unit, by this time darkness had fallen fully. It was few steps up to her cottage; there was foyer where I was asked to. Tyler had CCTV for all the rooms. He saw Shawna looking at them. “Don’t worry, we don’t record. Just keeping an eye on things.””So,” continued the manager, “what brings you to us?”Shawna swallowed nervously. In a quiet voice she said, “I am unemployed and running out of cash. I lost my job because of COVID. I have thought about working somewhere like here before, but never needed to...until now.”Tyler nodded understandingly. “That’s fine,” he said. “But I’m not so interested in why you need.