I got my own back when hewas examined and I held the camera.The nurse seemed satisfied with ourprogress and then dropped a minor bombshell. ?We need t... start you doing someexercises to work your back and arse muscles a bit.? Many of the staff watchedwith a morbid fascination at the sight of our bruised bodies although, when Ilooked in the mirror earlier I thought the purple colour had faded a little butI still walked slightly bent over and with slower steps than normal. Theexercises were like a. “Lucky girl,” She said referring to the ring we had picked out. “I wish I had some guy buying me a rock that big!” “Look at the ring you’re wearing! I’m sure your husband spent a fortune on it.” I wanted to play a little game with her and I’m making good enough money to afford it. “Boyfriend actually, and he didn’t buy it.” I looked at her, puzzled. “It’s from the store. One of the benefits of your family owning a jewelry store I guess.” She seemed to sag a little and I figured she was. Levy, her father, was a wealthy man. Even if Pelle had been of the same faith, Levy's daughter was as far out of Pelle's reach as was Ingeburg, Hunold's daughter.She thanked him nicely enough when he returned with the small bag of selected coal pieces and gave him a small cup filled with a salve for wounds in exchange. Pelle often cut or stabbed himself when working with limbs and branches in the forest, and he would make good use of that salve.It was a profitable afternoon. Pelle used two. I choked up a little, thinking that I'd never now know whether I had told her how well I thought it was going to go with her eyes.It was a little tighter than I thought it would be, meaning that I'd screwed up the size, or, more likely, that she'd finally undergone that growth spurt she'd been wishing for. Well, good for her. She was cutting her hair a little shorter, too, in a way that framed her face much better, and adding a few highlights to her brown hair. She was actually a very.