Fasade of the heart

nt for Brett, Janice thinks sympathetically. She and Brett have known each other since their first year at varsity. In their second year at varsity, Brett had to quit veterinary science after his fa

ong. She has a difficult day behind her. It feels to Janice that all the animals in the area waited until Adrian, her employer, and his wife left for a long, delayed vacation overseas before they became ill. Fortunately, he got a locum that can help her in practice, but he is young and still inexperienced. She had to look at a farmer's stud bull on the other side of Brits this afternoon. She drove straight from there to Dikhololo, where she will help shoot the animals with drug darts from the helicopter for the next three days. In two weeks there will be a game auction and Jake wants to take ten blue wildebeest there, but until then the animals have to be isolated in the bomas to make sure they are healthy. Janice looked at her watch and sighed for the umpteenth time. Brett said they were only going to pick up the pilot at the helicopter landing pad, but now it's much longer. She could have gone to greet Maggie, Jake's wife, instead. Although they are much older than Janice, from the first day they met, Maggie was more of a sister to her than Lynette ever was. She also desires a long, hot bath and a bed. Even if it is not her own double bed in her house, but a single bed in a strange room. "Gabriel's wife had to see a doctor in Pretoria he felt he had to go along," Bre