one of the first things that paco did , once he started on me , was ask alice if he could borrow rosetta stone , but she was the wrong way round , english to spanish , so alice treated him to an early birthday present , and his mind was like a sponge , it soaked up the dvds , and by the time he , alice , robin , freyja and i sat down for our very own case conference he was cooking on gas , and finally we prised out of him his final solution .