Total silence. "They must be sleeping already." I whispered to myself, as I got somewhat excited knowing that I'm the only one still up in the house. ...I didn't have to go downstairs to the basement where my older sister's room was because she has been staying with her friend's house for some time now. I tried to contain all my excitement as I tiptoed back down the hall and up the stairs to my bedroom. As I entered my room I closed the door behind me and turned off the lights. I had a small. We gotta go NOW !!’ ‘I just hafta finish this little guy here, ‘ she says. ‘The big guy is on seconds, so I can leave him, OK? But, yeah, I’m nearly done.’ ‘I said NOW! IMMEDIATELY! Here’s your your dress. Put it on. I’ve got your purse.’ I take her arm for support and we walk out the door and across the parking lot. She tries and fails to get her dress on. ‘Fuck it!’ she says. ‘Nobody’s gonna see me naked in the parking lot at 4:30 AM anyway !’ She’s right so I get her into the car, cold,. “Am I to take it you love Mellors?” I asked.“No silly,” she sighed. “I lust for his rippling muscles and stiff manhood, I cannot love a man so much my social inferior.”I was affronted, Mellors was an excellent chap, while Lavinia was rapidly turning into her mother. A plan unfolded. I would teach Lavinia a lesson she would never forget.“One moment,” I ordered, “Stay exactly where you are!”I stepped from the room and bellowed “Mellors!” at the top of my voice.He came running, I heard him leave. But I will be lonely.”“Well, why can’t I go along? Would we go broke if I stopped waiting tables for the summer?” Sylvia saw everybody as living from one paycheck to the next.“Not at all. We’ve been saving up the trust payments for expeditions like this. And, after all, we decide how that money is to be used; it’s not like some agency is looking over our shoulders saying, ‘George is the anthropologist, so only George can go.’” He’d explained that. His grandfather’s trust was never going to make.