Just as I was on the point of giving in to my guilt and getting some books out to start revision the door-bell sounded. “Saved by the bell” I thou...ht as I opened the door to find two of my female friends standing there.“Hi”, they said, “we were passing and thought we’d drop in for a coke or something”. The girls, Linda and Sue, went to a different school from me but both lived nearby and I’d known them both for several years. They were in their school uniforms as they had been taking a. "That fucker's been muscling in all over the manor. Why'd he come here?" One of our patients was someone he was after," said Roland."Yeah. That figures," said Harry. "Oban never forgives a slight. What'd he say, then?" He told me that we'd have to pay rent to him rather than to you." He did, the cunt. And what d'you expect me to do about it?" I rather thought that the money we paid you would give us some protection from thugs like Rushmore."Harry considered this momentarily as he shoved the wad. Alfred emerges, his expression giving nothing away. He stops and gazes down at her from the top of a short flight of steps. His tailcoat and pencil mustache are impeccable.“Shall we sit, Ms. Gordon?”“Let’s not,” Barbara replies with a sigh. “Is he dead?”It’s been three months since anyone has seen Bruce or the Batman. Bruce has disappeared before, although usually not for this long.“Master Bruce’s instructions were perfectly clear,” Alfred says, avoiding the question as he descends toward. You will be needing them. You will be going out dancing and maybe finding a date to take you."Damita was angry at this but had to admit that she did feel much better. When the old woman finally left everything had been taken care of. Phone numbers were given so they could all keep in touch but the address was never given.It was late by the time everything was done. This time Herminia looked back at her home for the last time but was not as teary eyed as her daughter had been when leaving.