After all I am a prisoner and won't be able to use the card."I gave him his list of items, starting with food and two water bottles, tire repair kit e...c. Most of it he would have to buy and bring with him when he came to pick me up. Ken was eighteen and had an old, battered Chevy he loved to tinker with. It was in excellent mechanical condition. I figured that we could easily get to the coast; and Ken would be back on Monday evening if we switched drivers so he could get his sleep. "My plan is. They always have and always will. That’s their station in life. The man I marry will be young, handsome, brave and strong! Not old, infirm and senile! I remember him from the ball. He smelt like a goat!”She thought back to the ball that had been held just two months ago. She remembered Lord Tathlone. He was a kindly man, polite, thoughtful but just a little vague, forgetful. It was unkind of her to mention his smell; but, unfortunately, he did smell like an old goat! She remembered his steward,. He’d been there all along, watching with the others. I turned away, ashamed to let him see me like this. Ignoring my resistance, he enfolded me in his warm, comforting arms. Despite everything, I almost felt safe. ‘Whatever happens,’ he whispered in my ear, ‘I love you. Always remember that.’ I nodded, unable to speak. In a perfect world, I could have just stood there in his arms forever, and damn the consequences. But this isn’t a perfect world, is it, and sooner or later I was going to have. Of course, we would not disclose the nature of our relationship to anyone including my mother and her sister because it would be far too distressing to even imagine her dismay. I could easily imagine the taunts and jokes thrown my way by my so-called "friends" when they discovered the debauchery of our nocturnal experiments and the way they would throw the word "Aunt" in my face like an insult of the worst sort.Aunt Maggie gave me permission to move my things into her flat that same morning.