Paula has some words to have with you before I escort her to the Palace."THE KING AND PAULA"It's so nice to see you again, Paula. Now that my wife is ...ll and dying, I am very lonely. She doesn't know me these days. It breaks my heart to see the poor lady the way she is. But your sweet bottom has lifted my spirits a little already! It looks a little red. Have you been caned lately?" No, your Majesty! Worse luck! My Mistress, the traitor Roberta, used to cane me, but stopped doing so more than a. . I am just here with my wife Gina and I couldn't help but notice the incredible glow your beauty represents. You should be in magazine covers. ---She quickly interrupts me."Here - take these books and pay for them; and while you are at it, hold my bag," she says in a demanding manner.I want to say no. But I can't. I purchase the books for her and then walk out the store by her side."So where is your wife?" "She is across the mall in that shoe store. She is the tall latin blond." She's cute.. Now, I know you two are good. Better than good in fact, since you’ve both gone through the change. But hundreds, probably thousands of brilliant and dedicated scientists have been working on the cancer problem for decades, most without any luck. I can only think of one way you two managed to develop a ‘promising new therapy’ so quickly.”“Yes,” Mom said, answering the question I was building to but hadn’t asked yet. “We are using your blood in the therapy. Or, at least some of your plasma.”“That. Plus, if I did some of the things now that I'd done in the past I would probably be shot, not just given a community sentence or a few months in prison."She seemed like a rough diamond, but they seemed happy enoughTony then asked me about the survivors we had identified in Eskdale, "Because Sid wants me to make contact with them before the winter." I told him we had the pictures that Paul had taken at home, and we got into the train and made our way the last half mile to the village. I then.