After what had happened to Suzie, neither she nor Cindy had said a word in protest about the uniforms, or the fact that they'd been made to strip nake... and change into the dresses in front of both James and Mr. Keats, a fat, leering little man who'd made nasty comments while watching the girls strip.Mrs. Grotten had laid out the first day rules for them. None of the other students would speak to them, and Cindy and Suzie weren't allowed to talk. Only if a member of the staff addressed them were. On Sunday, I took Leah for a carriage ride up into the hills where it was a lot cooler. It was not until later that it dawned on me how much the elder Schwartzes trusted me with their daughter. I had only known Leah for a week and here we were making a trip out of town unchaperoned! This was just another thing that I had forgotten about how times had changed in the 21st century and how much freedom a girl was given up-time compared to 1876. Yeah, in a lot of ways, I was still ignorant,. After I came back from la-la land that is. They also want me to start working with a speech therapist they had mentioned that before but I hadn’t followed up as 1. It doesn’t make sense to me. I know how to place my tongue and shape my lips. I can’t get my brain to send the damn signal. 2. I only have so much money to put toward co-pays and meds. 3. I only have one day a week to fit in my, my wifes and my kids, various appointments. I would like to enjoy some of my days off. I told her I’ll. That's why some corporate hotshot had thought of this money saving idea. Just don't tell the transporters what they were carrying and as long as everything made it on time all would be well and the company would save a fortune.Unfortunately for James, the company hotshots made an error in calculating the safe time. Their minimum safe figure of 18 hours was based on the chemical being in a tank that stayed still. When you added in the sloshing around caused by transport in the tanker, that safe.