"Turn around," ordered the woman, and Alicia turned to face her."You humiliated me, so now it's time for me to return the favor," said the woman."What... But I didn't--" I didn't say you could talk! Now shut your mouth before I blow your god damn head off."Alicia stopped speaking, her worst fears confirmed. Despite the fact that Alicia didn't know the woman, this was all about revenge. And that meant there were no limits to what might happen. She was about to try to protest her innocence. De Saint-Meran?" said Madame de Villefort; "then this house belonged to M. de Saint-Meran before you bought it?" It appears so," replied Monte Cristo."Is it possible that you do not know of whom you purchased it?" Quite so; my steward transacts all this business for me." It is certainly ten years since the house had been occupied," said Chateau-Renaud, "and it was quite melancholy to look at it, with the blinds closed, the doors locked, and the weeds in the court. Really, if the house had not. I started to take stock of our situation. The sun was still relatively high in the sky so we had a few hours before it would begin to get dark. The warm sun also meant that we wouldn't freeze, but if we were stuck on this raft until nightfall it might get relatively chilly. There were pockets along the insides of the raft four of them I decided to see what was in the one closest to me."Bob, do you know where the boat is? Or what's going on?" asked Stacy. At that time I was still barely holding. ."Howdy Larry." Says the guy at the aviation desk."Heya Phil. Gas and go please." Larry smiles a tight smile at the man, a little nervous, a little excited. Cold sweat drips down his side and into his wife-beater in the cold of the air conditioned office."Gotta plan on file?" Phil flips up the FAA documents and looks through them."Just gonna do the hotel loop. Just want some time up, just want to relax." Larry cracks his knuckles nervously and widens his smile a little."Sure, call it in while I.