Gathering myself I got out and walked over to the door. The music was louder here and I stopped inside by the rest rooms looking around. Finally I saw... Dottie and this kid – hell, he couldn’t have been more that twenty-five – movin’ in the shadows by the back door. The band was playing a fast two-step but they were dancin’ somethin’ slower than a waltz … if dancin’ is what it was. His hands were all over her and she sure weren’t complainin’! I watched for a minute, undecided, when she put her. Alicia Rossetti!’ Arnie announced, in a loud voice, leering over at her. ‘Ms. Rossetti is here to attend to your every need, and ensure that you all enjoy the rest of your evening to the full!’ He walked over and took hold of Alicia’s hand, and drew her into the centre of the group of admiring men. ‘Remember what I told you!’ he muttered, out of the side of his mouth. ‘Good evening, gentlemen,’ she said, calmly, although her heart was pounding like a two-stroke motorbike engine. ‘I’m so glad to. Mom has called her friend Edith who will stay with us until mom returns on Monday. Edith is mom’s co-worker at the hospital. She too got her nursing degree in the Philippines and was able to come here to work with the help of her brother who is a doctor. Edith has been living with her brother and his family since arriving last year. She is twenty-five and also very pretty. She and mom hit it off immediately because they got their nursing degrees from the same school in Manila. Mom sort of took. We pulled up outside Emma's house and headed down the side alley. Apparently there was a path through the centre of all the gardens in the terrace that led to the back entrances of houses either side, and was soon in Emma's living room with Lyndsey sat across my lap in the armchair and Emma on the sofa - they were talking about Pete (aforementioned colleague) and I was waiting for them to finish chatting so Emma would head off to bed and I could get down to business with Lyndsey.Emma was also.