Unday, June 19, 2005 (Continued)When Carol and I arrived back in the study, the parents were talking about the mansion-buying AGAIN - was there no end...to it?They stopped, letting me say, "Carol's game has finished. It served its purpose and Carol lost the mood when she and I started talking normally..." Thank you VERY much for it," interrupted Carol. "I had a GREAT time. That was the first time I've been able to do that, and it was even better than I'd imagined. Especially thank you, Mark. You. “I think I need to get Mrs. Fielding to drive him otherwise he’ll run the entire way. I’ll phone you back in a few minutes.” I knew Mrs. Fielding, Henry’s principal, cared for her teachers as much as Henry cared for his students.I’d heard from Henry how the teachers hated to cover another’s class because they had to give up their preparation period, but this wasn’t high school and the kids had to be supervised at all times. Ten minutes later she called me. “I’m going up to his classroom. " Well do you get it?"The big question. I waited. Beep"Not enough."I licked my lips, wondering how far I could push this. I paused and typed "well the offer's there..."And waited...It took only a few seconds before the reply came."How do you know you'd fancy me? I might be fat and ugly, and anyway you too old to want young girl like me."I thought moment, then typed "we could look at each other and make our minds up... and it would be a privilege to be with a young girl like you at my age." I. And each day the job seemed to be more tedious. The jobs became more demeaning. The staff kept making notes about all of their reactions. They were facing a lifetime of orders if Ralston said they would be the one with the collar. And that thought drove them near mad with panic. ?Why did I ever agree to this??By the second week Donna and Clark were sure they had made fatal errors in offending Ralston. They could see him shaking his head as he would walk away. When they tried to catch up.