"I want to know what is going on!" If you want to know what is going on," I said, "than you will be more polite, and you will treat me and Jamie and B...ecky with respect. If you cannot do that, then you can leave."Jill sputtered for a moment and then said, "You're right. You surprised me." She reached over and gave me a kiss on the cheek. "How are you?" I'm fine. How about you?" I asked."I was OK till I walked in," she said. "I guess I'm OK now as well, but as Ricky Ricardo says, 'You got a lot. As Carol greeted Michelle, Renee became a little shy and wondered if thiswas a good idea."Hello Renee," said Michelle. "It is very nice to meet you. Your mom hastold me a lot about you and I am so happy that you have decided to comein and let us help you bring out the woman that is inside. Your mom wantsus to give you the full treatment today since this is girl's day out. NowI want you to just relax and let us take care of you. The first thing weare going to do is to get both of you shampooed. Idon't think she realized I knew about her recordings. That would work inmy favor; hopefully, at least until she returned to work Monday.I found the disk library locked in the closet. I grabbed all the diskslabeled "R. Valentine." Each was further notated with the session date. Byluck, her notebook computer was there also. I guessed she had planned on adifferent kind of 'homework' this weekend. Bad luck for her, good for me;I snatched up the notebook as well. I would need it to view the disks.. "Hush puppies for me if you have room, please," said Aunt Ellie.Sam and Al walked down the lawn toward the river and into the near darkness where the serving tables were.Jamie could hardly see them in that light. He was trying to keep his eyes on them while being part of the conversation at his table after the little attention getter by Emily. He didn't want to make her mad at him."Have you seen Helen lately Jamie?" asked Mary Bass."You know I haven't. Has she gone away? It's been some time.