SenoraAlcazar

1:30 While Tintin and Martine slept together (in the most innocent sense of the term) the other friends, enemies and acquaintances milled about the departure lounge.  Mrs. Wagg had succeeded in getting all her children to, if not go to sleep, sit quietly and fidget or read. This feat was then undone by Jocelyn who got up and walked over to Bianca Castafiore who was once again explaining to Lazlo Carredias that it would have been better for all concerned if they had taken a private plane and that even though Irma was quietly embroidering she was dying inside. "So Miss Castafiore, if you hit a high enough note do you think that you

"No don't apologize. You're fascinating…so do you think Senora Alcazar's right and we can't say for certain if there's right and wrong?" "Don't listen to anything that woman says, she barely even believes herself. I can't tell if she just takes positions to start fights or is trying to justify whatever it is she does, be that selling guns or spending tax payer money." Martine furrowed her brows "I feel sorry for her. It can't be fun to be that negative about everything" "She could just change her mind. Anyway no I don't think that everything is relative. I think there's black and white, but that leaves room for a lot of grey area." "

We continued walking for a while the two of us wrapped up in our own thoughts. We should circle back towards the city in a little while; we both would need several things, even for the new selfless lives that we were planning to lead. I suppose that I had no right to feel as good as I did. But I had done the right thing and if this is what doing the right thing feels like I must start doing it more often. After all I could see that Rick was hurting badly. He kept looking up at the sky when he thought that I wasn't looking, trying to see the plane. "They'll be fine, Rick. Don't worry" He nodded his head and looked at the ground. I know that

He couldn't take much more of this. It wasn't the pain that bothered him, it was the noises in the room. The relentless drip, drip, drip of rain from the roof to the ground. The ticking of the cheap clock that he knew was three minutes slow. Then there were the blows themselves. Why couldn't John (not John that was too familiar) be bothered to keep a steady pace? The inconstant "whack!" of the birch rod was out of step with the clock and for some reason that drove him mad. He tried to concentrate on the blows themselves and not the way they were administered. He thought to himself of all the frustration, depression and anger he had to hide on