"Philippa stiffened. Normally, she found such words from a humanlaughable. Coming from Sam, it bothered her. "Your eyes are open to my world at las..., then ? no fair or unfair, bador good, just screw or be screwed. Your hate is my gift to you.Cherish it, for over the long march of years, even that fades, and youare left with nothing but time." Philippa rose. "I will send servantsto help you bathe and dress for the dinner." She saw there would be hand marks where she had gripped Sam's. I need to get out of bed. What is this?” I yelled as my eyes focused on the bedside clock. “It’s only nine o’clock. Why am I awake?”“You have an eleven o’clock meeting this morning, sir. I thought you’d need a little time to get breakfast and over to the conference room.”I threw a pillow toward her and Mattie fled.“We need to start harvesting Mr. Adams’ er ... apples, you know ... so we can start er ... fertilizing prospective eggs.” For a doctor supposedly in charge of artificial insemination. "And a baseball bat." Why would I need a baseball bat?" Teresa giggled."Not for you, it's for your father so he can keep all the boys away thatwill be flocking around you when they see you in that dress."At the checkout the total came to quite a bit more than Bob had in hiswallet. Undaunted Bob pulled out his driver's license along with the goldcard he so carefully hid behind it. The look on the woman's face told Bobthat she thought the card was stolen. Before she could voice her concernBob. ” I replied, “go and see what they’ve got.”Emily looked puzzled but she went to the common room and I continued into my room and the shower. I didn’t go out of my room again that night although I did think about when I’d said ‘who says that you can’t fuck the real thing anytime that you want, none of you have asked me.’ and wondered if it had registered with any of them and if they’d ask to fuck me. I also smiled at the thought of Lisa’s shop replacing all her mannequins with perfect copies of.