“What, no histrionics Mr Reading?”“No, Your Honour. Naturally, an appeal will be lodged.”“You’ve got fourteen days if you wish to appeal t...e decision.” Barry nods to acknowledge the instruction.Taking his bag and notes Barry leaves the court while the others are still packing up their papers. He goes directly to the Clerk’s Office and asks for certified copies of the decision with all of the papers lodged. He needs this to prepare an appeal, and they know this. One of the staff goes off to get. “You see, I feel sure I could ... seduce you. But if I did, you would never be able to form a complete relationship with a human woman afterwards.”“Would I want to? Need to? Would you leave me?”“Oh, I wouldn’t leave you. But you would get old and die. You’d live longer than usual, but you’d die.”“And you? You would go on?”“I ... I wouldn’t want to. I think, I think, like others, I would also die.”I didn’t say that I thought it was already too late for me, that I was already head-over-heels in. "Carrie smiled, "I don't like debt, so I wanted us to owe nothing on the house. I have a lot of money that's exclusively mine to do with as I want, plus I hold shares in the limited partnership my family created – so does Emma. As we have children, they'll receive shares automatically. The assets have a good fund manager, so there's been significant growth every year. A couple of years ago it doubled." I don't mean to pry, but how much are we talking about?"Carrie smiled. She knew she was about. ‘I just want to get home,’ he almost slurred and I looked at him in surprise, never having seen him drunk before. Daniel fell asleep in the car on the way home and I kept looking over at his sleeping face, which was more relaxed, the lines of worry having disappeared as he slumped against the headrest. I so badly wanted to help him, but had a horrible feeling that my presence had made his problems so much worse. * I awoke the next morning alone again. Daniel had roused himself to undress and.