“Don’t be stupid Debs. I KNOW what happened yesterday. Everyone knows what happened yesterday!” “What?” “It’s all on WhatsApp. Haven’t...you even looked at your phone? Darren’s finally fucked you! You’re busted! Everyone knows about it.” “Oh my God!” “The whole house smells of sex, Debbie. You smell of sex! For Christ’s sake what were you thinking of?” Now I knew I had no choice but to come clean and tell Izzy everything. It wasn’t as if I didn’t know plenty of secrets about her. “Who told. .. could Fred stay on at the Home Ministry? He’s really doing a good job. John Wulf is really doing a very fine job at the Finance Ministry. His people are the ones who worked out the changeover from our present social security system to the one you’re proposing, darling—”“But how could he possibly?” Karla asked, utterly astonished. “There is no new system, nor even an idea for one, until a few moments ago!”Now looking very embarrassed, Paula replied softly, “Because I told him it would be your. Him and me chased the girls together when we was young."I followed his map and about noon the next day found the farmhouse deep in the woods. It was a timber-framed, well-built place with a big barn and several outbuildings. Smoke trickled from the stone chimney. I rode clear around the homestead, did not see anything suspicious so stabled my horse, unholstered my musket and knocked on the back door. An aged black servant answered and let me in to a small back room. The kitchen work was. After Deborah andDad left, when we were all here together, we didn't have an alpha male; no one assumed that role. When Dad returned, I observed that he resumed that position with none of that fighting and bickering found the wild like they show on the Discovery Channel. He didn't say anything or pound his chest, it's just that the girls touched him and served him without his having to ask. They didn't bow like slave girls or spread their legs, but they showed admiration and respect. They.