. it's lurking still deep down inside her and, until that spirit of hers has been finally tamed, it cannot be said she is a slave girl fit to serve th... Lady Judilla.The other three of the new arrivals are already fit, but not Cindra. That I know. That I shall ultimately tame her – and fully – is not in doubt. It is simply the way and the means. It is, however, a problem one can contemplate happily.Last evening I had my assistant Bela bring her to me.Knowing the girl's reluctance to perform. .. but I wouldn't be tempted. The pricewould be too high, I'd signed a contract and if I weakened and wascaught, there would be no going back this time. It was harder thanI'd expected though, Penny had really got under my skin.One Saturday morning as we neared the half way mark of the monthlong trial, Liz's sister Sally came round for coffee. I hadn't seenher for a while and it was good to see her. I'd always had adifficult relationship with her, but when I had become Penny she hadbeen. And it’s not always movies, PJ’s, hot cocoa and Enid Blyton at bedtime. Sometimes there’s a little more bedroom athletics involved.”And sometimes you reach a point in a conversation where you know you really don’t want to ask the next question, that nothing good will come of it, yet if you don’t ask it you will spend the rest of eternity wondering what the answer might have been.I had to ask. I really did.“Who Pippa? Who have you had on the other end of that?”And now she looks shifty … and I. ”Beatrix smiled at Jerome, “Do you know why Heather needed to go to the square?”“No, not really, I had heard a silly rumor about needed to be there for some kind of meeting.”“Do you know what kind of meeting?”Jerome sighed, “I heard something about witches, I don’t believe in witches.”“Neither did Heather, but she still went to the square, to honor the contract.”“I didn’t know there was a contract,” Jerome replied as he sipped his coffee.“It’s a very important contract, it helps keep Deepdale a.