In a small adjoining back bedroom (with a prominent crucifix on the wall), he came upon elderly Mama Minosa (Frances Dominguez) with her back to the door.And I""m not your brother no more and wouldn""t want o be...Yarbles, great bolshy yarblockos to you.I""ll meet you with chain or nozh or britva any time.Not having you aiming tolchocks at me reasonless.It stands to reason, I won""t have it." But Dim backs down and declines to fight and Alex lets the challenge go, for the moment.He returns home to Municipal Flatblock 18a Linear North, where he lives with his "dadda and mum." In the ground-floor, trashed lobby of the depressing, unkempt building, a huge mural depicting the dignity of labor and noble citizens is defaced with obscene sexual graffiti.Big Mac good-naturedly comments on Terry""s lack of education:The only arithmetic he ever got was hearing the referee count up to ten...I""ve been frozen for 30 years.I gotta see if my bits and pieces are still working...My meat and two veg, my twig and berries.Hello lads, you still awake?" She resisted him and told him to give his libido a rest, although he persisted.The mysterious letter reads:You must have faith in me, Elizabeth.Wait, my work must come first, even before you.At night the winds howl in the mountains.There is no one here.Prying eyes can""t peer into my secret...I am living in an abandoned old watchtower close to the own of Goldstadt.Only my assistant is here to help me with my experiments.She explains that Henry told her about his strange experiments at a significant time - just before they became engaged and he retreated to his mountain laboratory away from her:The very day we announced our engagement, he told me of his experiments.