"There you are Alice, did you turn into salt? Have you become paralysed?" I asked her."No mistress. But my Mom told me never to swear like that!" She ...aid."She might have, but you're here now and the rules have changed! Haven't you realised that?" I said to her."Yes, mistress, but it's hard." She bashfully admitted."No that's now your job to get 'something' hard!" I said smiling and noticed a small smile on her lips. "That's it Alice, try to forget about your past life, this is just the start. She turned to me and said “I need to ask you a favour, do you think I would be able to stay here tonight because Dave is going out and I need somewhere to stay” Yeh off course you can I don’t mind I replied. My mind suddenly when into overdrive thinking about all the stuff that could happen but then she stopped it dead and said “ but remember just as mate’s yeh ? “ I muttered back off course. We had been watching TV for about a hour or and I asked her she wanted some dinner. She did, so I went. She wished that there was someone around to talk to. Yesterday the housekeeper had been at the house and Adele had followed her around as she cleaned. Her parents were always out and about—her mom with the horses, her father ‘consulting’ local businesses—so she was used to being alone, and usually it didn’t bother her. But today it did. In fact, it was driving her crazy. She padded into the kitchen and poured herself a small bowl of cereal. After all, it was past noon and she hadn’t bothered. ”Just then, Jenny came out with three large coffee mugs. With a hello to me, she passed one to Kim and another to me. Mine was, of course, a latte. I looked at her questioningly. She just winked. We settled into a three way conversation about this and that and the other thing.Eventually, Kim got up from her seat. “I’m taking off, now. I promised Sherry I’d be over at eleven. Think Kenny can take you home, Jenny?”“Oh, I think so,” replied Jenny with a glance and another wink in my direction..