<strong>Lady Beatrice </strong><br/><br/>Was that the sound of breaking glass, Beatrice wondered. It was the tug of her hand not the glass tragedy that had her stopped.<br/><br/>Lady Beatrice looked deep into the eyes of the girl she turned to, expecting to see some sign of sarcasm or underlying cruelty and found instead Lily.  Open, honest and as sincere a girl as ever Beatrice had met in years.<br/><br/>Oh, dear, she thought as she heard lily speak.<br/><br/>Bitter sweet memories of a youthful past swept into her eyes briefly as she remember her own question to another woman. This time the reply would be as open and honest as the question she was asked.<br/><br/>“I was not always as you see me. I can learn and so shall you,” Lady Beatrice said as though she had made up her mind.<br/><br/>And she had.<br/><br/>With and squeeze and a hug, Lady Beatrice looked to the kitchen.<br/><br/>“We should push onward if for no other reason then to leave enough plates intact to eat from when we return.”<br/><br/>Lady Beatrice was off. Her smile turned to the men as she and Lily flashed past the kitchen.<br/><br/>“Ready gentlemen!” She called as she reached the door.<br/><br/>There was a flurry of activity behind her. The kitchen erupted like a volcano dumping two men on either side of the small band of women. It was Smytthe who opened the door.<br/><br/>He spoke in gulps, quite out of breath. “We’ve got tah pick up ..erh.. People. They’re goin our way.”<br/><br/>“Oh how very nice,” Lady Beatrice said as she kept Lily beside her and stepped into the corridor.<br/><br/>Both men turn right while Lady Beatrice turned left.   The two men exchanged looks of surprise and ran to join the Lady and the… uh.. Girl.<br/><br/>“Helllooo!!  Lefttenant Penney!!”  Lady Beatrice sang out in a melodic soprano. She waved a hanky in  his direction.<br/><br/>“So good to see you, again!  Will you be coming along on the tour as well then?”<br/><br/>Shift Leader Penney remembered Lady Beatrice and stifled a groan.<br/><br/>“Sorry, Lady Tsade, unfortunately duty calls,” the Shift leader reported motioning the small tour past all of the check points without so much as a second look at the purse.<br/><br/>“Perhaps another time,” Lady Beatrice said whimsically as they did what even Tsade himself could not do.<br/><br/>The tour went right past the check point as if it was not even there. Those at the check point breathed a sigh of relief. All baggage was to be check thru to include purses and wallets.<br/><br/>Security swore Lady Beatrice’s purse was an abyss.  A portal to another world where everything missing wound up.<br/><br/>It had taken two hours to go thru every item in Lady Beatrice’s purse the last time. She had so much stuff they had to get a small hand cart to carry the purse and the contents down the hall because they couldn’t fit everything back inside.<br/><br/>So they were only too happy to see her go.<br/><br/>“Elevator’s gentlemen,” Lady Beatrice announce.<br/><br/>The two escorts ran ahead. Smytthe reached the elevators first and frantically pushed the down button.<br/><br/>‘I do love a good tour! Have you met the music director Lily?” Lady Beatrice said as she entered the lift.<br/><br/>