With a sigh Lena called to Quiana, hearing yet another sobbing girlpick up. She had no desire to have to handle such a call again, but itwas the least... she could do to fix her husbands mess. "Hello Quiana,Miss Smith here. I heard you cleaned at my house a bit earlier and hada nasty run in with my husband. Look I would really like to apologiseand I can promise you that he will pay dearly for his behaviour."Suddenly an idea hit her."You know what Quiana, as you probably saw we're pretty well off. ‘It’s hard to describe. It’s… It’s… It’s amazing. It just makes everything look better, feel better. Makes you feel better. Crazy-happy, like you’ve been – been – been drinking sunshine. Like you’re in love with… with life and everything and everyone. I’ve only done it a couple of times – at parties – not even good parties – but once I took it, they got amazing.’ On using the word this time around, she clutches Lily’s arm. ‘Go on. Try it, with me.’‘You think I should?’ Lily looks to Jed as she. She looked at me, bit her lower lip and with a wane smile."How did you know Jack's not home?" The truth?" I... yes. Yes of course."I decided to lie, thinking I'd only hurt her by telling her the truth even if she already knew or suspected. "I just left the store. It was packed with teenagers. No way is he gonna be here in the next hour or so." Oh... yeah," she said, tossing her head to one side. "Well he's been working late a lot lately." That comes with having your own business," I added for. There was a major drama happening here and they couldn't say what it was all about... "Dad, what happened? Is it something about Zoë and Jeannie? Are they hurt?" No, but your mother found out... they were doing... they were sleeping in the same bed and..." He stopped, breathing heavily, as though his years of pipe smoking were taking their toll."And?" Linda asked, swallowing and her legs trembling. She had a feeling she was going to faint."Behaving like two whores," her mother said. "Two.