He’d met Alison almost a year before, and had made no effort to contact her since. But since he had to deliver some horses in the town where Alison ...lived, Tom thought he’d call her. ‘Ah…Tom…Tom Singleton…’ Alison said. There was a pregnant pause. ‘Oh, yes, I remember you Tom. I…I didn’t expect to hear from you again. Are…are you here in town?’ ‘I had to deliver some horses to a farm not far from here,’ Tom explained. ‘Since I was in the area, I thought I’d give you a call. You interested in. I hope you’ll understand.”“I’m the one asking for the second chance.”“Is that a ‘yes, you understand’? Or a ‘no’?”Janey laughed, “Think about it this way; if you aren’t worth waiting four weeks for, or even a Summer for, then you sure aren’t worth marrying in three or four years.”April 24, 1983, McKinley, Ohio“Do you do ANYTHING simply, Petrovich?” Clarissa teased on Sunday afternoon.“I’m pretty sure the answer to that question has to be a firm ‘no’,” I grinned.“How DO you get yourself into. After a good night's sleep, they dressed andhad their breakfast, then continued by carriage to the surgeon's house,they were met by his maid and shown into the waiting room, a few minuteslater the surgeon came out to greet them, he said good morning to themother and looking at Elizabeth said, "What a charming daughter you havehere Mrs Julie Antwon." Elizabeth blushed. "Right will you please followme ladies and I will see what I can do for you Elizabeth, may I call youElizabeth." She replied,. They sat on the stairs at the back of the house. “Do you still live by yourself ?”, asked Madeleine“Yes”, answered Roberta looking straight ahead, “and you ?”.“Yes. I like it by myself”, answered Madeleine“What do you do in L.A. ?”, asked Roberta“I work part time as a book editor. The rest of the time, I write murder mysteries.”, answered Madeleine.“Murder mysteries ? I never read them, but I’ll look in the library next time”, answered Roberta laughing.“I write under the pen name “Bertha.