It might depend on where the kids end up. You have an exit strategy?”“Not yet. That was part of why I was meeting with Bill Ivarstad.”“Did you...know Winter was engaged to his grandson?”“She told me.”“There was always something odd about that kid, but I could never put my finger on it. I think Winter is better off without him.”“So does she.”“You should come back. You seem like good people.”“Thanks.”We shook hands and he turned to go to the office and I went into my room. I shut the door, walked. Me? Not quite so. Still, we had fun."You need to learn to move on past one of those wrong notes, baby," she said. "That's one of the things you need to learn. You're a perfectionist. When you do a wrong note, you come to a stop. You need to just recognize it and keep on playing."I heard what she said, but when she appended 'baby' at the end of the first phrase, my mind went blank for a second."You're not listening." I heard you call me 'baby'." I've called you baby before," she said."I know.. But this wasn't what Madam Colette wanted her slave to watch. What possible relevance could it have for Lisa? No society would ever enfranchise its slaves. Emancipation has to precede enfranchisement and, however much Lisa's mistress might campaign for her rights, there wasn't much likelihood of that happening any time soon.It wasn't this news item, nor the one that followed regarding the scandalous murder of a Senator's daughter, but the next feature in which Lisa's mistress, Colette. Wilkerson’s daughter at Texas A&M and used her to force her father to drive to a meeting. Once there, they had grabbed him. She had been roughed up a little and he apparently had been injected with truth serum or other drugs to make him more pliant. He had revealed at least part of the process to manufacture our stealth material.“Well, I’m glad neither of you were permanently harmed.” He had been found semiconscious from drugs and suffering from dehydration and some exposure. His daughter had.