What Ho!

"You have a point," MacG acknowledges. "Better hurry, let me know if I need to retain an attorney"

Trotting along, you follow a trail of kicked over vases and dainty size 5 (women's) holes in the floor boards.

You finally beard her in the garden, where she is seated on a pond side bench, mangling a plant and chucking assorted parts towards the terrified local fauna.

"Come now, Cuddy," you say, cautiously approaching in a slight crouch. "What is all this about?"

She wheels about, glaring with glowing red eyes "YOU!!!!"

This was not the hoped for response, but you decide to go with it "Why, yes, it is I suppose"

"You've ruined everything! You and that worthless pig Charles, more content to stuff his face than actually stand up to Daddy."

Agreeing with her seems the safest bet. "Well, of course, but...."

A distressed duck dodges another blossom, squawking in fear. "All he had to do is bargain a few hundred bucks out of you! YOU for cripes sakes! A lousy kid in kindergaartan could have done it, but he OBVIOUSLY doesn't care enough about me!" She switches from screaming to sobbing, and the mollified waterfowl start migrating cautiously back.

It's a bit awkward, but you lean forward and