The local doctor was Mike Hardy, a married man in his late thirties with short cropped brown hair and a beard, who had come home to join his father's ...medical practice after he had finished medical school and working in a city hospital.He was waiting outside the gym main entrance when Keith arrived and greeted him with a warm smile and a hearty handshake. Mike followed him inside the gym and he showed him where he could set up to do the physical. The gym had a sick bay that looked like a. "So we'd promised the staff a good picnic." Now remember," Harry said, picking up the tale, "this was a staff of five, seven if you include us ... to make it a good picnic, we aren't talkin' more than three hundred and fifty, four hundred dollars, and that includes what were nice company bonuses for us at the time. But come the Friday before, it's 10 AM, we've been expecting the check for three weeks, it's been 'in the mail' for three weeks, and we got nothin'. Sappho and I are lookin' at. She and Hannah opened the invitations and they accepted some, Elle declining others. One was the opening of the ballet’s new season, accepted of course. Elle decided to invite Donovan to go with her but he had a business meeting in San Francisco that evening which he could not miss and Hannah was invited to go in his place. Joe invited Hannah to accompany him to the ballet but she said she was already going with someone else. He looked disappointed but two days later presented two tickets to. In Little Oak. I'll be gone till dinner. At least." I felt my daughter's foot press on mine. Lois asked, "What are your plans, Lizbeth?" Sleep in. Study." She pressed hard. I got her message. "Make Daddy's lunch. Study some more." I would enjoy some very inappropriate alone time with my daughter tomorrow, time that would likely include more than kisses and caresses. Instinctively I seemed to know she was ready for, and mature enough to enjoy, much more. Our time was here, and, most importantly,.