“Thank you,” Betty said. Meant it too. These people barely knew her and they really didn’t have to help her but they did. And to think that, as miss Brooks' accountant, she’d frowned on her habit of aiding the homeless. “I’ll do my best to make myself useful of course,” she told Alan, her tone still formal in spite of Cath's words. “And I wouldn’t want to impose. Do you have any idea who I could talk to about…” she became aware of the sudden tension, people organizing, shouting “…about a van…”<br/><br/>An attack,<em>again</em>!?<br/><br/>“Graham,” she placed a hand on her friends’ arm, “Laura, the kids - do you want me to go find them?”<br/><br/>She knew that the lawyer cared greatly about his family, but also that he held some important position and was probably required elsewhere just about now.