“Yes Umm”
“Call me Madam, not Umm, that is a bad habit both you and your stepsister have there!”
“Yes Madam.”
Jim looked at her sideways and wondered how much about him she really knew? Calling her Madam felt right to Jim even though he was not hers, it still seemed right somehow. She exuded the image of being a true Madam despite not being dressed as his pictures depicted, he could sense power contained and he like it and her, he realised.
I also believe that you are what might be called homeless?”
“Yes I suppose I am!”
“I thought so, well Jim I have a proposition to put to you, so listen carefully. You have seen the room you will be staying in, now I would like to make that yours in a more permanent way. This” She indicated the garden. “This needs someone to love and look after it,
