~ ~ ~ ~ ~“The Professor has not yet returned, madam,” the courteous Reception Manager at the Cipriani told Esme when she called in the late aftern...on. “If you would care to wait in the cocktail bar, I will notify him as soon as he returns.”Esme Valdez took a window seat and ordered a Mojito. Half-an-hour later a jubilant Professor Fernside stood before her. “What a lovely surprise!”She gave him a warm smile as he bent forward to kiss her hand. “Well, you said that you would like to eat in a. No more punishments or beingtreated bad. Now you got a lot of new brothers and an older sister to take care ofyou. I think you'll be happy once you get to know all of us better." I toldhim making him smile again. "Come on lets get your stuff out to the ship so Ican tell the others about all this good stuff in here. I'm sure the swimmingfloats and rafts will be going with us once they see them." I told him. Wewalked back outside and the ship appeared before us once more and the hatchopened. Surely he must have had such a hat back at the farm, but if he had he couldn't remember it. His faulty memory was beginning to frustrate him.Jeremy was relieved to hear the foreman order them to start loading the wheelbarrow with rock to dump in the trench. Physical labor gave him an excuse not to think. He filled the wheelbarrow again and again.A load of gravel was dumped over the rocks. Then the foreman had a pickup truck back up to the hole with a load of clay. Jeremy stood in the trench and. I don’t know, go for a midnight swim or something.”She doesn’t remember! So what am I supposed to do now? Pretend it never happened? I guess that’s my only choice, because it’s the only decent thing to do. Nothing good can come from me reminding her if she truly doesn’t remember what she did.“Don’t give it another thought. I mean it. Let’s just ... look, I’ve been enjoying each and every day with you more than the last, and I wouldn’t want anything to get in the way of that. And no matter how.