With Linda and Martin both pushing me I did rather better than I would have done left alone. Three weeks after the exams I was handed a big brown enve...ope by Mrs. Davison, called personally to her office I thought I'd be in big trouble."Go on then, open it."I tore the flap open and looked at the large greenish certificate inside.I'd passed English, English Literature, History, Information Technology and Drama, French, and believe it or not, Geography, though goodness knows how.I was amazed. "Aren't you the new COO of B&D?" Well the man did his homework."Yes I am. I completed my first week today." Amazing that they'd pick someone so young," Henry said."I'm older than you think," I smiled. Jack was almost ninety and now Iwas twenty-three. That made me one hundred and thirteen."Well you don't look a day over twenty-five," he grinned again."What do you do, Henry?" I wanted to change the subject."I'm a vice-president of Harris Bank." Oh, that's my bank."The second it was out of my. .. ?" No! He might be a bad man!" He's cute," said the other and giggled. "Ask him!" No!" I dare you ... Are you chicken?"I could see now it was the slightly younger girl goading the older."Mister!" called the big one, trying to escape chickenhood."Good afternoon, girls," I said."Can you come here?" she continued. "We want to ask you something."The girls were right to be wary of a man they encountered way out in the woods, but I knew I would do them no harm."Sure, what can I do for you?" I. ”“What? You guys do that?”“Occasionally. We’ve gone a couple times like that.”Charlize closed her eyes, took a deep breath, then said, “I’ve ... I’ve n-never dressed like that. I’d feel almost naked.”I replied, “We won’t push you, unless you want us to push you.”Gracey added, “Beth has become comfortable with it since May. June? Something like that. She accidentally wore her short white shorts like Heather’s to the mall. She was pretty embarrassed when we wouldn’t let her her go back and.