”“Swimming suit?”“We’re going to the water park. It opened this weekend. It’s Memorial Day, remember?”“Yeah. I’ll be ready. I love y...u, Rachel.”“Mmmhmm.” Disconnect.Fuck!“Mostly, we’ve gotten used to you being a bit of a dork and sometimes sounding like you’re a hundred years old and hate the world,” Rachel said. I held my breath. Had I been acting my age? “Sometime you are too clueless to fathom. It’s like you weren’t even born in this century. You got hit harder than you let anyone know,. The DEFCONTROL business, maybe you could have explained that away, but you sunk yourself with that call about publishing stuff on the In­ternet and especially what you called the 'carrot, ' that tip about the fertilizer guy. It told us you'd hacked a lot more and a lot deeper than we realized."I shook my head in self-annoyance; I'd gone too far with that, after all."Don't beat yourself up for it, Jack," he continued. "I suspect the main reason was to get Ms. Wentworth clear enough that you. My memory told me that this was important as it took advantage of the natural properties of Yew wood. It was the fact that the heartwood was able to withstand compression while the sapwood was more elastic, allowing the bow to stretch that made the use of Yew so important for a bow of this size. He old me he thought he could have something made up within three or four days and I thanked him and set out for the hall.It was time I thought to review the lordship a little more thoroughly with. Paul wasn't expecting her back until tomorrow night and she thought she would surprise him. She wore a black dress with a silk violet camisole and French knickers set. She unlocked and opened the front door and entered the house. She had expected to find him in the lounge but the light was off, so she checked the other rooms downstairs and found them all empty and dark; there wasn't even any sign of Sally their live in maid. She ascended the stairs as quietly as she could. Paul must be in bed,.