When Adelaide had met and fallen inlove with Jeremy (Joanne's dad) she knew that he was always late and veryimpulsive. The two conditions fed off eac...h other. Adelaide harped uponthese at the beginning of their marriage but she accepted it as the way hewas eventually. It got progressively worse but Adelaide didn't complain.When she found out he was having an affair, Adelaide felt like a fool.Adelaide was just getting over that (and the fact that she had just turnedforty) when she got the. “Ahhhh,” she sighed as she got into the car, “I had a rough night. Bad dreams.”“Maybe it’s your subconscious, trying to flush out all those poisonous memories.”“Yeah, well, I sure feel flushed this morning. Like down the toilet.”“Sorry. Wish I could make you think happy thoughts. I felt good this morning until I began to think about what the day’ll bring. Oh yeah, you ready to undress at the morning’s grand unveiling?”“Yep. Got a modest suit on again under these clothes. God, I feel so torn. " I can't tease you now though," I grinned, "if I had you tied up now like I did all those years ago I'd not be tickling you that's for sure."I was referring to an incident when I was fifteen and Lucy was ten, we'd been mucking around and I'd pretended to be an red Indian and tied her to the washing line post, I'd tickled her until she was sobbing. As I remembered the incident fondly I noticed Lucy give a little shiver, raising an eyebrow at her I asked her if anything was wrong."I was. " It's a big ugly wooden thing. Looks like longChinese dragons trying to bite off each others tail."It did look Chinese, Jack noticed. "Who could havesent it?" Who cares! Nightmares don't have to make sense." Do you remember going to sleep?" He saw work bootsnear the bed on the other side. White athletic sockssnaked around the boots. The curtains of the windowopposite the mirror were drawn for the night."You never remember going to sleep when you'redreaming," she claimed.Jack had no reply. Was.