‘The marriage was doomed from the start, he was not a nice man at the best of times, but it went from bad to worse very quickly. You see she was pre...nant, and Jimmy was, at first over the moon, but then, when he found out, she told him, that she was already pregnant before they got married he lost the plot big time.’ ‘Surely he didn’t think that I was to blame for that, did he?’ ‘Not at first, but then he came home drunk one night, and they had a huge row, in the course of which she told him. They weren’t any fun. The dogs were always ready to talk, but they didn’t always pay attention to what I said to them,” she told us.“How did you get Lilly in the house?” Jill asked next.“I just called her to me, like you showed me how to do with my things,” Maureen told her.“You just called her to you ... you didn’t transfer her here?” Jill asked, surprised.“No, I’m not sure how to do that. I just thought about her being her with me, and she was here,” Maureen told her with another shrug.“You. Please it is too embarrassing."She gave him a look that could kill. There was a long silence. Finally shesaid, "You can either give him his gift, or I can throw it away forever."The look of panic in my father's eyes grew even more intense as he said,"Yes Miss, right away Miss." He then shuffled over on his knees until hewas right in front of me. He removed a chain from around his neck and heldit out in front of me as he said, "Mister Oliver please accept this gift asan apology for all the years. .When he stopped kissing me I wasn't sure what was happening, but atugging, pulling at my tank top told me he wanted the top off. I triedto catch up and loosely tried to move with his pulling and somehow thetank top, then bra were gone - flying crazily over the edge of thebed... I wished the light was off, his staring at my chest I couldn'tread - was he disgusted?"Beautiful... Oh, God, you're so beautiful..."I looked away briefly, and pulled him to me, kissing him softly. "Yourturn..." I.