"Besides the truth?" Allison said, finishing my thought. "She could see that I'm not just your partner, helper, or whatever else she sees, but that I'...m your sister, and your lover."I turned and stared at the sunlight reflecting off the water in the pool. Could that be it? Was it the incest problem raising its head? Would Elizabeth be able to tell? Rebecca had said that when she looked at people she saw the truth about them, the truth about who they are."Jimmy?" I think that may be it," I said,. Then another man called David and asked him if I could be excused for afew minutes, which he agreed to. By then four men all wanted to beshown the way, and asked me to take them.For the first time, I used the main staircase to go up the one floor,with almost a tourist group following me. We got to the bathroom, whenone of the men asked if I would help him."With what?" I rather naively asked him.At that all four men bundled me across the hallway and into a bedroomopposite, with one placing his. “Tell me about her. Why are you interested in her?”“Her name is Patty and she’s real different than you. I met her at work and we have lunch together sometimes. She’s married too but her husband is away working a lot and she gets horny. She asked me if I thought she was attractive.”“Is she?”“Not as much as you but not ugly. A redhead and a bit overweight but that makes a girl comfortable, doesn’t it?” He smiled at the faint humor.“So she’s not looking to snare a husband. I’m very careful that. Bobby took time to get his coat, which was good, because it was bitterly cold in the night air. He ran, but when he got to the Doctor's office on C street all the windows were dark. He headed for the saloon. The back door was closer, so that's where he went. He burst into that door, into the kitchen, where an amazingly fat woman was standing at a big wooden table rolling out pie crusts. She looked at him and frowned."Don't need no snot nosed boys hanging around here!" she barked. "Now git!" She.
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