I'm surprised that Missus Thornton had even noticed me. We've never talked but we will. Chad, we will go see her tomorrow."I know that, with Chad besi...e me, I will be okay today and every day."I said, "Always, ladylove."Elaine, Jack, and Toby were the first from school to come by. Toby said, "I'm sorry Brittany. Anything you need or want, call me." He gave her a hug and a kiss on the cheek.Britt kissed his cheek back. "Thank you, Toby. You're a true friend."He came to me. "That's true for you,. I don’t believe you did it. I believe you are basically a good person who likes to put on airs. I also think it is a shame your so called friends and compliant neighbors, the one’s you managed to bully, turned their backs on you the way they did. But lucky me, I’m your last choice. How sad is that. In your defense your husband did you wrong. Thomas wasn’t much of a man to begin with so there is no great loss there. Why an obviously intelligent woman like you would marry a man who was so much. Jacob Perkins from British North America designs the first commercially feasible refrigerator using the cooling properties of liquefied ammonia.A prototype steamship, coupling an advanced Branca/Barber turbine with a propeller, is trialled by the British Navy. It reaches an astonishing 25 knots against the wind. The Navy is so impressed that it calls for a new class of warships to take advantage of the new technology.The Ottoman war between the Holy League and the Ottomans begins. Lasting 3. The clothes that were strewn aboutnormally were gone. The dresser had been cleared, and everything on itnow was neatly placed.Slowly he got up, looking around. There was nothing under the bed. Hestood, going to the closet, then the dresser. The clothes had not beenstuffed in the hamper, they had been taken down to the laundry roomwashed then neatly folded and hung.He stared into the closet, then plucked out one hanger. There was a winered sheath dress on it. Size five. He'd never seen it.