‘Let me guess,’ it was an easy tone, almost as though he wasn’t speaking to anyone in particular, but entirely focused on me, ‘New to town and...you can’t find a damn thing.’ I couldn’t keep the helpless grin off my face, apparently I was not the first. When I turned to him, I found that I couldn’t keep eye contact for long. Which…was odd. I’m pretty good about looking people right in the eye. But with him… I could only give him the appraising up and down out of the corner of my eye and well…this. ’ ‘It isn’t camping, is it?’ ‘No,’ I had replied with a laugh. ‘No camping.’ As the door to the suite locked behind me, I set the suitcases down, smiling to myself as I watched my fiancée slowly move around the front room, admiring everything, touching everything, opening everything. ‘This is a hotel?’ she asked softly, the amazement still very much evident in her voice and upon her angelic face. After so many business trips and so many nights spent in suites such as this one, I found that. It was hard work at first but now justabout everyone sang along or clapped in time.After this and just before I left I usually sang a solo for them. Thistime I played and sang my Mikado song, the one I had sung yesterday. Thewhole of the nursing staff came in for that and there was some reallynice applause at the end.I met Janette at the door as I said goodbye to the matron, she waswiping her eye,"What's the matter, Janette?" I asked."It must be some grit in my eye, come on we better be going,". The three boys stood, as Paul followed the other two out his eyes cast over the class and a smile came to his lips then he walked out quickly out followed by a hapless Miss Tomlin.Apart from a few sniffs and oh dears from Miss Tomlin the walk to the office was done in silence, that's what it looked like to the outside world but Paul re-laid his words to the others : Told you life for us is now different, this part is what I and I expect you have been waiting for, this and other times like it.