But when the Master of Ceremonies shouted ‘tally ho!’ they all had to rush to the pool and jump in. The last one in became the new Master of Cerem...nies and the game would begin again.”As Josiah peered through the gap in the hedge – he had tried the front door and found it locked, the girls were sensible – he heard the cry ‘tally ho!’ and then to his amazed shock (and a little delight) saw three entirely naked women run past and jump into the shallower end of the pool. For of course none of them. John asked the younger man standing before her."Not so loud Elizabeth, someone will hear you," replied thirty-eight-year-old Matthew Sinclair, fearing that someone amongst the eighty or so people at the party would hear his rather loud-voiced mother-in-law."Oh, don't be such a prude and answer the question," said the rather tipsy mature woman."You have been drinking, Elizabeth," was Matthew's next gambit in trying to change the subject."Of course I have been drinking, it is a party, now tell me. She punched me in the crook of the elbow, I scurried away, dragging my fingers up Kia’s thigh. Kia twitched and erupted out grabbing my wrist from tickled laughter. I exposed my side and Pat whiffed her pinpoint fist straight under my ribs.“Pat, that’s the last time you hit him,” Xiomara warned.“He deserved it,” Pat sulked.“No. He didn’t,” Hannah shook her head.“If he didn’t wheeze that funny, I’d be pissed too,” Marin smiled at me. Kia fought for her breath just a little harder than I. Throughout the horrible ordeal, Madeleine re-mained secluded, appearing only at the court hearings and always in the company of Gaston Larreau and his battery of attorneys. But there was hardly any escaping the newsmen who swarmed the court daily and badgered her at every opportunity; it was front-page scandal for weeks inasmuch as the nefarious Canadian crime czar was involved, as well as his nephew, along with the untimely death of the powerful under-world lord's mistress.Madeleine had never.