we had in the meantime heard from carlotta mayfair - a barrage of threatening legal letters from her law firm to ours in london , demanding that we 'cease and desist ' with our 'invasion ' of her privacy , that we make 'full disclosure ' of any personal information we had obtained about her and her family , 'that we restrict ourselves to a safe distance of one hundred yards from any person in her family , and any piece of family property , and that we make no effort whatsoever to contact in any way shape or form , deirdre mayfair , ' et cetera , and so forth and so on ad nauseam , none of these legal threats or demands having the slightest validity .