"Had a good look? So you're the female Bruce Lee! Glad to meet you!"To say that the above was uttered in a sarcastic tone would have been utterly to f...il to convey the combination of irony and sneering dismissiveness. Penny was already more than a little frightened by this woman. She was a few years older than herself, perhaps, but an age ahead of her in terms of her obvious and arrogant self-confidence. And it was an arrogance firmly based on realism. This was not a woman to trifle. Gabriel went back to her familiar role of head guard and in a pinch, Marion’s enforcer. In her first day on the job, Marion heard complaints from everyone it seemed: from noblemen asking her for her hand in marriage while they were whining about all the things that Cecilia had stolen from them, to clergymen complaining about church lands and money that Cecilia had seized, to commoners begging for food and seed to plant for Cecilia had taken everything in taxes from them. It was these people. The suits bore the name "Hobson" and the other "Windsor". The cameraman and the spacers arrived at the companionway with the cameraman stopped by two hard faced deadly stares with the side lighting showing yellow flecks of the four eyes. The spacers continued down the short passage turning down a side opening; the commentary then covered the recalled shots of each face in full glorious detail obtained by a high tech vid camera identifying the men as the shuttle pilots and flashing back in. What do you mean?’ ‘It’s Maisie you love,’ Dorothy continued pushing herself back and instinctively covering her breasts from Emma’s gaze. ‘Not me at all. You only come here to see Maisie!’ ‘That’s nonsense,’ said Emma, but blushed like someone who had just been found out. ‘It isn’t, you know,’ Dorothy continued, standing up and putting on her underwear. ‘You’ve never loved me, have you? You only started a relationship with me to be able to see Maisie. I hate you!’ She suddenly burst into tears.