"Seemed awful young, that first soldier we first met," Wainder said when they stopped for a warm drink from the canteen. "All the blue-jackets we seen...today been either old men, fellers wearing bandages or young as that boy." Guess most of the army's down around Richmond." Seth tried and again failed to find a comfortable way to sit on his hard saddle. He wiggled his sore backside and half stood in the stirrups."Reckon that's right, boy, an' I 'spect that's jes' what Ol' Jube's countin' on.. She couldn't tell him that. No way could she ever tell and she hoped to God that Ron would believe all that Rick had said to him and that he would give Rick a wide berth. If he stayed away from Rick and took the warning about starting rumors to heart Rick would never know about the cell phone picture.Damn! She didn't know what to do. And what was Rick going to do? She was sure that he would not physically hurt her, but she knew him well enough to know he wasn't going to shrug it off. He. Jim Fitzgerald. Explosives knowledge. National security. It all hangs together now. You are from an unnamed department of the state. Okay, I agree.”“Thank you, Mr Robertson. In return, I can tell you that Mrs Dora Prentiss is not to be trusted.”It was Reg’s turn to go wide-eyed.“Really?”“Really. I can say no more.”“Thank you. Can I assume that Fiona Prentiss and her father do not fit into that category?”“You can. Keep Fiona Prentiss well away from her stepmother.”“I intended doing that anyway.. So that she came and gave me the lunch and said, “eat your lunch and study da.”I said like I don’t want your lunch. She was angry and shouted at me like if you don’t eat this lunch then I will never talk to you. I said okay to that.She was getting angry and came to beat me, she poked me in my head, I too hit her on her hand and we fought like that and were rolling on our bed as I was studying in my room.A few minutes after, I crushed her boobs by my elbow and she cried.I was said sorry di, I.