"Carol could see the problem too. She asked that the cats that wanted a school should contact her. She would see if there was enough interest. She wou...d be happy to teach again.I thanked everyone for their assistance with dinner. Cynthia recruited a clean up squad. All was cleaned or in the dishwasher in a half hour.Zeth came over and talked with Tiger and Squeaker. He had a sketch pad with him. They would talk and Zeth would sketch.Joe S. told Cynthia and me what he had found on the internet.. A fleet of taxis took the revellers home eventually after a couple of rousing Irish jigs from Sean and we stood in the doorway waving them off, earlier on we'd noticed Cassie and the twins whispering and giggling, so it looked like I'd be sharing Jane's bed again.I bolted the doors and asked if anyone wanted a drink for a nightcap, but the twins took hold of each one of Cassie's hands and announced that they were going to bed,"I take it that my boss isn't going home tonight, am I right?"I put a. I found that out when Stephan returned from his errand with six bottles of sweet wine for Her Ladyship. Luckily, he came to me when he could not locate Jack in the stables. What was I to do? The mistress wasn't due for supper for two more hours, and when she was closeted in her rooms, only I was authorized to disturb her. If I knocked, what would she do? In what I suspected their current state of dress (or undress!) to be, there would be a significant delay in answering the door. I was. Sure, they seemed to understand, but would they be as understanding if they knew it all? If they knew the whole story about how she almost drove one person to suicide, or betrayed her best friend's trust?She had never thought she would be capable of anything as cruel as what she did to Brian Dobman, and the fact that he was cruel to her first didn't seem like a good enough reason. Not anymore.Leia remembered it clearly.It was late afternoon and she was leaving the party store a couple of blocks.