She could feel especially virtuous at mass after the discomfort she had experienced providing her hostess with needed distraction. And Karl looked dis...tinctly unhappy. She put on her most blithe expression to greet him as they went in to breakfast, where again they sat apart."I missed thee last night," he said when they could speak in relative privacy; only Roger could overhear."And I missed thee, as well," she said, as if it had been no great matter. She went to help their hostess who was. She had wanted to get on the road long before now, before traffic got so heavy. There was nothing she could do about it now, she thought as she slammed the trunk shut.She got in the car and backed out of the driveway. This was one road trip she was looking forward to. It had been so long since she had had any 'me' time. A week at the beach was just what she needed. She had been saving for this trip for a long time. She rented a condo right on the beachfront, and would practically have the whole. " Of course you're right," I responded. "I'm sorry we have given you thatimpression. By the same token, 'There are more things in heaven andEarth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.' We weren't theones who put you in that creek."He rolled his eyes and scowled. "Always with the Bible," he said and wentinto the living room."There's our pretty girl," Rachel gushed when Timothy appeared. Shejumped up, rushed over, and hugged him. She stepped back, took both ofhis hands, and looked him. I turned on my heel and marched out of the room and found the rest of the family. “They stopped his pain medication.” I told them, seeing red, “so when he woke up, he was already in the worst pain of his life.”The doctor had joined us and repeated his claim that it was to help bring Matt around.“That’s like refusing to bring meals to a quadriplegic to try to force him to walk to the table,” I snarled, rounding on him. “Charlotte, it’s totally your choice, but I don’t trust this man to care for.