"Grace and Terry walked into Grace's bedroom. Her body had been taken to the morgue and she didn't want to leave London that night, the shock of what ...he had seen made her scared. She had looked in Sandy's bedroom and she had helpfully sorted out all of her belongings before she had killed herself. This made Grace cry again; the very thought that she had spent the last days of her life organising her own death.It hit her that suddenly she would have the rest of her life without her only friend. She snorted, your parents have no back bone, all young ladies need regular discipline to keep them on the straight and narrow. I said that I was always a good girl and they never had cause to punish me, she said good or bad had nothing to do with it, regular physical discipline is paramount to a girls upbringing. I asked her to describe to me how she would punish me if it was up to her and while she went into great detail as to what would take place I sat there stroking the leather strap and. I think we need to talk.” I joined my little girl on the couch. I had momentarily contemplated a good thrashing in the playroom, but we needed to talk this out. I put my arm around Stephanie and pulled her close. She put her head on my chest and I kissed her on top of her head. ”You know, Sweetie, I really don’t like the fact that you can’t get your head around any thoughts of Shawna getting too close to me. I thought of taking you in the other room to punish these thoughts out of your head.. In what I imagine is the way of Americans, she initiated the contact.She smiled directly at me and asked if I was going far. I told her about my trip south, and it turned out she and her daughter were going to the same place, visiting relatives as part of their European trip. “I'm Marisa, by the way,” she said, offering her hand.“I'm Alice,” I said. “You over here for long?”“A few weeks. I've come into some money from my recent divorce, so I thought Ella and her friend Lucy here could join me.