I excused myself and went to Clarissa.“He died about ten minutes ago,” I said quietly.“I guessed from what happened. What’s next?”“A funer...al service and burial. The church cemetery has plots available, which I expect them to use, though he may have made other arrangements.”“Always burial? Never cremation?”“Too symbolic of the fires of hell,” I replied, “though the Church grants «ekonomia» to the faithful in Japan where cremation is legally mandated by the government.”“As hidebound as your. Just about everything that Chilvers did was against police regulations, but there was no denying that his methods seemed to work and his standing in the community was the best that I’d come across. This could require a radical rethink of how things were done in the country. Word got around about my investigation and that brought about the first negative reaction. It was in the form of a young, if you can call the mid-twenties young, attractive blonde woman. She approached me as I sat in the. ”“What do you do for work?” she asked.“I run a small computer business in Chicago. My friends and I started it when we graduated from college. What are you going to do when you graduate?”“Move to New York. Beyond that? I don’t know yet. But I need to get out of Albany.”I had been trying to eat while we talked, but I hadn’t made much progress. I decided to simply eat as quickly as possible, then finish the conversation. Abbie sat and watched and less than ten minutes later I was done and she. Since neither one had been there before, she pointed out the sights as they drove up the winding road lined with trees.Jane thought it looked strange seeing everyone dressed when she drove up to the front even though she knew they would be. She couldn't get over how accustomed she had become to their nude lifestyle. Not everyone was there as planned. School would be in session, Soroya would be working, and Jacob was somewhere else on the estate. So, only Allison, Kathy, and Nathan were out in.