‘You’ve always gone for the gangster types. I blame it on us watching Scar Face all these years ago.’ She laughed out loud, so loud in fact that...a couple of the other patrons turned around to see what the fuss was about. Cassandra has a foghorn laugh, if you didn’t know.It was in the middle of the embarrassment I felt due to my friend's very unattractive guffaw, that my phone vibrated and whistled on the table, announcing the arrival of Jonah’s text. (Yes, confession: even though I’m as cool as. " Shaking his head in disbelief at what had just happened he went back to his car.Diane watched him get in and drive away. That slap hadn't hurt but it was so unexpected that she thought it would be best to leave him alone for while. A smile grew as she realised that she'd won. Charles would be back in her arms within a week.Charlie drove back to the mansion wondering where it had all gone wrong. At least Diane didn't know about the mansion so she couldn't come there. 'Damn!' he exclaimed,. Nobody's going to know," he said now all excited himself.I struggled and squirmed and managed to pull away. I fell off the couchonto the floor but managed to quickly struggle to my feet. "I'll finishthe two weeks and then we're through," I said as I turned and startedfor the bedroom to change clothes. Luckily Carl seemed to calm down abit and stayed on the couch. But he wasn't there for long.I entered the bedroom flustered and couldn't wait to get out of thereafter what had just happened. I. " Tom wasexasperated. Why couldn't she just use plain English?Princess Dee responded with, "If you are going to represent me as a maidthen you need to learn the proper terminology as well as the correct wayof doing things. Is that understood Tiffy?" Tom just nodded his head andwent back to collect everything as instructed.When he returned, Princess Dee instructed him to use one or two cabbageleaves to line the bowl before filling it up with the cold beans andrice. She told him this was the base.