We were praying our hearts out, bawling and telling ourselves how much we loved each other. It was the most terrible time of our lives. We knew soldie...s were going to burst into the room any moment and spray us all with bullets. How can parents protect their children when the Government sends the Army to attack? We were helpless and terrified."Similar comments were made by everyone else in the families, firmly establishing that they'd been terrified and believed their lives were going to end in. The collar was restrictive but not painful. ‘Has any of your guests ever taken a strap or cane, such as I have observed in the drawer, to you?’ ‘Indeed not, My Lady. As I have said, I have given no guest cause to do so.’ ‘Then I fear you may discover that not all ladies are as gentle as I. No doubt Mistress Pickles will explain. I feel sure that some of her customers enjoy the more robust forms of entertainment.’ I recalled one evening that Grace who, you may recall, delivered the orange from. It left Carol and Jacqui alone for a few minutes alone and later Jacqui told me that Carol had said to her that 'it was obvious that the 'gang' wanted me as much as she wanted me when she first saw me.' Jacqui thanked her for the compliment and I guess that was the moment when she went into her 'Heidi mode' for when Carl and me got back she had that glint in her eye and into the house we went.Upon entering the house Carl took my arm and steered me toward the kitchen where drinks were laid out. I absorbed everything you told me. I became a better person because of that. When the year was over I had to move on. You understood my visits would be limited in the coming year. Though when I did come to visit we would sit for an hour talking. We caught up with what was going on in our lives. Another year had passed, I had to move on once again. At the last visit in the year you took my hand as I was about to leave and said two simple words; "I knew." That is when our friendship began..