I got in and she closed the door and got into the passenger seat beside the Driver. As the car sped out of the car park she turned to me and said,"We ...ill be at my home in ten minutes or so and all will be revealed then. She paused and then went on. "Are you as worried about this as you look?"I nodded and she grinned and said"Good, that's what your behaviour deserves, but things are not as bad as you think. I hope you are going to be delightfully surprised by what I have in store for you."I. Towards the end of the week, when he was feeling more refreshed, he returned to the vicarage mid-afternoon, rather hoping this was the end of his duties of the day, although his churchwarden had muttered something about yet another consultation about something or other. His housekeeper met him in the hall with a jerk of the head towards the drawing-room which was her way of indicating he had someone waiting for him, before shuffling off to the back of the house, feeling she had fulfilled her. Beautiful, but bored. She glanced over at me, and then moved to sit next to me."Thank you," she murmured, glancing over at her man to make sure he wasn't paying any attention."For what?" I asked, trying to be just as quiet.She stared at me for a moment, perhaps taking her measure of me once again. Seriously, she said, "I didn't like you very much last year about this time."I allowed one derisive, humorless bark of a laugh to escape. "Not very many people did. I didn't like myself very much.". “No.”“Why not?”“Because I’m worried what kind of questions you’ll ask, and that I’ll tell you the truth.”“Do you feel compelled to tell me the truth?” he asked.“No. But I’m not worried about the consequences of telling you the truth. I’m not worried about anything right now, Bobby.”“Because of what I did with the wand,” he said.“Yes. And that brings us to the point. That thing is very dangerous, Bobby, especially because we don’t know very much about how it works. If it affects the user, as.