I had paid out a great amount of guilders for that order, and was rapidly running out of money, and credit, therefore the notification of my cargo arr...ving in Antwerp was received with a great sense of relief. The invitation to collect the sacks of coca leaves at my earliest convenience was accepted with alacrity. I hired a wagon and driver and made the 50 mile round trip in a day – a long boring day – as my driver was a monosyllabic Flem, and the terrain between Brussels and Antwerp being. "That letter she wrote? Before I got married? She said I was the 'love of her life' and if she couldn't be with me, she was glad I was happy.'" He took another sip. "The woman's nuts." That doesn't sound nuts."He looked at me hard."Okay," I said, "I'm not going to defend her anymore." Good." Although I wish I'd seen it earlier." What was there to see?" he said. "It's not that she's drooling or spouting nonsense. At least most of the time." Well," I said, "it never really sunk in that she was. I sat and made a sling before slipping the kittens into it. I put the remaining meat away before returning to the map. Griffin and Hunter both put their heads inside the sling to smell the young animals. I rubbed Griffin's ears, "they are to hunt the squirrel rats with."He sniffed and I smiled as I pet Hunter, "you need to teach Hunter how to hunt tree rabbits and lemurs."I marked the site I chose and went to start cleaning the pelts we had brought back. I was feeding the kittens again when. ’ ‘Well, you did say that the reason my Dad left was because Mom was too passive,’ Mark replied quickly. ‘Mark, dear, I never said any such thing,’ Dr. Morgan said. There was a benevolent tone in her voice, but those deep blue eyes had that mischievous smile, as if she was hiding some naughty secret. ‘I only said that your mother has grown up around dominant men, including your father and her father. That experience has robbed her of her self esteem, and made her feel unworthy.’ ‘Okay, well,.