3:45 pm
Scott was driving their green SUV while Lorna napped in the backseat. Lillian was sitting next to him in the front seat.
"So Scott, how's it going so far?"
"Well, I think I'm going to have to find a health store and buy out their stock of vitamins and ginseng."
"Why's that?"
"Because I'm going to need it to keep up with the English firecracker."
"Keeps you on your toes, does she?"
"Does she ever. She's borderline nuts, I tell you."
"I heard that," Lorna's sleepy voice warned Scott.
"Not surprising."
Lillian turned around and looked at Lorna as she rubbed sleep from her eyes.
"Feeling refreshed?"
"With his driving? I feel nauseous…"
"Whiner…" Scott chuckled from the front seat.
"You're such a flatterer darling…"
"Now Lorna, you've been showing a determination that most of the other contestants haven't expected at all."
"Shocking, aren't I? Not half as stuffy as we English are supposed to be, am I?"
"Something like that. You definitely seem to be a competitive young woman."
"Well, I am an attorney at law… and since my specialty is divorce law, that makes me even worse, doesn't it?"
"How bad?"
"Let's just say that I've seen the worst of humanity and I learned from it."
"Anything for that three million?"
"One point five since I have to share my bounty with this darling man."
"Did you hear that? I'm her darling man," Scott laughed.
"Shocking how men ignore anything that displeases them, isn't it?"
"I take it the two of you are getting along without much problems?" Lillian asked.
"Well, better than I expected," Lorna admitted. "When I first saw him, I thought freak and I was right. But he's the rare freak with a working brain."
"Would he have been your first choice?"
"No, I would have chosen the one in the jacket and the short brown hair."
"She smelled Shane's money bags right off the bat."
Lorna stuck her tongue out at Scott from the backseat and he saw her in the rearview mirror and returned the favor.
"What about you Scott? What did you think of Lorna?"
"I was curious and…"
"I believe you said you thought she needed to be corrupted…"
"The tape, right… yeah, I said that."
"You thought I needed to be corrupted?"
"Yes."
"And what do you think now?"
"Well, we're on item 10, thanks to your cunning and your crazy stunts so I'd say that you don't need to be corrupted anymore."
"Good boy," she laughed, patting his curly mop.