Dev got up and went to answer it, as this would be his first visitor to his new house. Dev opened the door, and there was Lord Benaldin standing outsi...e in the sleet."Well, aren't you going to invite me in? The weather out here is terrible," Lord Benaldin said and made to enter.Dev moved aside and let his superior into the house."So this is the mansion you bought?" Lord Benaldin asked with a twinkle in his eyes."Hardly a mansion, my lord. But I do like it a lot," Dev answered sincerely."Well,. Cindy realized that in only a few days Cathy was up to the same weight loading she used.So, too, in swimming. The two women swam at the health club in the bank building. In no time, responding to Cindy's coaching, Cathy was able to pace her as they swam laps. It was amusing, Cindy found. Typically, they would go to the pool and find it crowded with other swimmers. The two would dive in adjacent lanes and roar down the pool. By the time they finished their laps they would be the only swimmers. Then a few days into the week i was asked if i wanted to go out to the local town to celebrate a friends birthday, i hesitated a then thought yes ill go its about time i went out and enjoyed myself,so the weekend came and i got ready and went to meet my friends at the local bowling alley where the drinking was going to start, i was having a great time just drinking and talking when i noticed Miss Stratton walk in the door"hello Gemma she said"hello i said what are you doing here "oh i come here. Rebecca’s voice, echoed by the voice of the Lady. She loved him.She loved him! He hugged his walking stick to him in her place—their place??—and spun round and round, dancing them along with him. She loved him.“Waltzing Matilda; she loves me; she loves me,” he sang as he danced in circles getting dizzier and dizzier as he spun. A stone dislodged under his foot and he came down on his butt with a crack, narrowly missing knocking his teeth out with the staff. The moon above spun in a lazy arc.