The clipped alto of the dangerous female rang out. "Number One is in Group A."Number Two came forward more readily, when her name was called. She was ...laced in Group B.They went down the list, dividing the captives into two groups. Most went to "A". Only a third were put in "B".When Number Seven was called, Angela whispered, "that's me. Wish me luck."The pharmacist staggered forward, accidentally knocking down a couple of the other prisoners.She was put in Group B.Number Sixteen, Miranda, was. I had a hunch that this was also a smellier effort. The sun had burnt off the last of the early June dew, and was now baking the track on which 790 toiled. The boy had now completed almost 150 eighty metre runs this morning. I wandered down to the yard, to catch 790 ‘on the turn’. The track descended a little from the store, allowing the well laden boy to build helpful momentum when travelling in this direction. He had seen me beside the pile of red blocks, and injected additional urgency into. The rest milled about waiting for further orders.Here and there, a villager would spot a fallen loved one among the carpet of bodies. A distraught mother cried out in anguish at the sight of her dead son. She tried to run to him, to cradle his caved-in head in her arms. Aslak dragged the woman back by her hair, kicking and screaming. A sandy-haired, buxom girl of maybe eighteen or nineteen broke free of a line of captured villagers and ran to her wounded younger sister, who had taken an. 'Something more elegant is required for Madam's dainty feet,' he said, hurryingback to the shelves, 'something as slender as a stilleto, as sharp as a blade.' * And so it went, shoe after shoe in style after style were brought for Katrinato try. Some she rejected outright, some she pondered over, some she immediatelyfell in love with, and always the young assistant was patient and attentive,his touch light and attentive. Eventually she had half a dozen boxes stacked beside her and paid for. .