Nowstand up and stop whining."I stood up. There was no way she was going to give in any of this; Iknew I had to see it through."Right," she said triu...phantly, "let's have a look at this maid's dressof yours." She held it up.It wasn't your usual mail order French maid's outfit that falls apartthe first time you wear it. I'd searched high and low on the Internetfor something special and found it at The Travel trunk Company, a website specialising in maid's outfits for domestic helps. It was a. " When it seemed to be no problem for him to express it in secret before. Hell, I think even an "I miss you" would suffice but instead, it has been "I still care for you," which only make me feel even more ridiculous about the way that I feel as well as disgusted with myself for allowing this to happen in the first place. I feel so foolish for having allowed myself to be caught up in a tangled web that only turned out to be full of lies and unrealistic dreams and expectations. As hard has it is. "Bob, can I talk to you?"Bob looked up at her, "Go ahead. I can't see spending any more time or money on this proposal. They came into this meeting with the intention of sending us packing without a contract." I've been reading the proposal and as much of the specifications as I could. You know that I don't know the security business yet but even I can see that there are big holes in the other proposal. There are a few things that I think should be in our proposal that we didn't include. I'm. Atthe back of my mind, I also knew that once it was over and thefinal step was completed, I would have to tell Sean and theothers.I had told Mum of course but no one else. Of course, I was sureI would tell selected people but I had to choose my moment, aseveryone was knee deep in preparations for the concert and therecording. Keith Coltrane was flying over to produce and he andMel were becoming pretty intense.So were Cleo and Toby.'I think,' Toby said, 'that we have everything under control.