'Listen' he said ' I've spoken to Paul, and I'm here to apologise, I know I was wrong and nothing happened between you both and I hope we can try agai... and move on' I twirled a loose piece of cotton on the hem of my skirt, not wanting to look him in the eye I just nodded and sighed and found another bit of cotton on my shirt button to play with, he grabbed my hand and held it for a while 'what do you think?' 'Mmm I suppose' he pulled me onto his lap and kissed my cheek 'what do you fancy doing. The shareholders had wanted dividends to be as high as possible and thus the workers were forced to make do with obsolete and inefficient machinery to say nothing of pretty poor pay. The latter ensured that there were few good engineers and that churn was high. Tolerances slipped, as did delivery times usually down to correcting or even remaking a failed component.Tony Proctor, the other director was in charge of production. A time served engineer who learned his craft in the military, Tony was. Yer can call this place ‘ome as long as we both live. Ain’t that right missus?”“It is Albert. We always wanted c***dren of us own Jenny but it were never ter be. Well you’re family as far as we’re concerned an’ we both love yer as much as if yer were us own flesh an’ blood. We understand as ‘ow yer mum an’ dad are splittin’ up Jenny an’ this might be an ‘ard time fer yer but never worry cos there’ll always be an ‘ome fer yer ‘ere even if it don’t work out fer yer at Mathom ‘All.”“Thank you!. Christine said: “We know for a fact that you were peeping at Nicole earlier tonight, and we are pretty sure that you did the same to Astrid this morning and tonight. Do you deny it?” He didn’t. In fact, he could not say anything. Christine went on: “We cannot be sure that you have not seen more of us, after all, we have all used that shower. You will understand that we cannot let this pass. There have to be consequences. We are planning to tell Dr Grant and, indeed, the headmaster of our school.