Jesse leant in towards me until he was curled against my side."You've never told anyone what happened have you?" No," Jesse's voice was small and petu...ant, suddenly a child."Tell me." No!" Jesse raised his head and stared at me in horror, but didn't break our contact, "I can't tell you. You'll be so disgusted you'll never touch me again." Jes..." I found my other hand in the dew wet grass and stroked his face, encouraging him to rest back on my shoulder, "Pretend that we're alone now, pretend. It means that we can only play in the afternoon. But it also provides an opportunity.When we convene in Anna’s room, I do something that I haven’t done in a while: I blindfold my sister with one of her scarfs. She looks at me questioningly (at least as long as she can), but does not protest. Once her eyesight is gone, I have her lie down on her back on the floor.Then I quietly leave the room, pad down the stairs, carefully open the front door, put a finger on my lips in a ‘stay silent’ gesture,. Perversely, as a concession to demands from the press barons who'd shafted him more completely than did any Congolese male prostitute, the government of the Republic of England had elected to allow nobles to retain their knighthoods. This was justified on the basis that the title was associated with desert rather than heredity. But without a monarch to whom one could bend the knee and be dubbed a knight, Sir Norman would now be one of the last free-born Englishmen to hold the title.Sir Norman's. I had nothing much to do in the day time after they left for work and would watch TV or go to the terrace to get a view of the neighbourhood. I quickly learnt the neighbourhood and would do the vegetables /groceries purchase me. I liked the anonymity of the city and the freedom that gave me very much.One week passed and one night I woke up from her bed seeing some dim light from the hall. The hall was viewable from the bed room.As I peeped through the door, I saw that the light was from the TV.