I went to hire an apartment and I began to settle in. Next days were the shopping days I bought a lot of cloth, kitchen and house things. I told Simon...I needed this week for settling in. His colleagues and he were understanding and Simon told me they would wait for me on Monday next week. After three days I left the hotel for my new home. By Sunday the apartment became very comfortable. On Monday Simon and his colleagues showed the department and the complete University in more details. Next. It was nearly 1pm. The doorbell rang a moment later. Jan made a move to get up and I gave her a dirty look. "I can answer my own door."I got a dirty look in return. And she said something about maybe I should get a maid next. I threw a dish towel at her. She laughed as she attempted to duck out of the way, which got me laughing. I was still laughing when I reached my front door and opened it.It took me a second to stop and be at least semi-professional. "You must be Tasha." Okay just call me. The media atlarge had dubbed him the company's Chief Executive Officer, but whateverhis true title may have been, US Automata only ever referred to him asthe company's founder. The most recent Forbes' list of the richest peoplein the world had only a range of his possible wealth: "Mr. Hill is almostcertainly worth more than one million dollars, and is also almostcertainly worth less than one trillion dollars. We cannot rule out anyresult between the two."------And I was stepping into his. The dozen guests standing around the wardroom found their way to their chair. Yeoman Rogers directed Kate and me to a pair of seats next to the captain, near the head of the table. Julie intercepted us and gave us a polite kiss on the cheek. Her polished silver hand caught my eye; it didn’t normally look so shiny.“I’ll be sitting next to Kate tonight,” Julie whispered excitedly. “This is the first time the captain’s had the good silverware out this trip. Doesn’t it look splendid?”The wardroom.