Thank you! I knew you would figure Paine out. She doesn't even realize that yet, at least not in any way that she will admit to herself.

Believe me, I appreciate your reviews a great deal, even when you can find nothing to criticize. Knowing that you and the others will be reading and reviewing carefully keeps me honest, makes me check and double check everything, the grammar as well as the characterization. I would do all that anyway, but the extra incentive is still useful.

I have to admit that I am not much for the Gilbert and Sullivan. I have several friends who are into them, and when they are in local productions I'll go to see them perform, but that's about it. I have actually never seen The Mikado. Culturally illiterate, I know...