No succubus from Pumpmee Bottoms has been heard from, so we must once morefear the worst. When asked to speculate, experts on the Hounds have suggeste...that they may be headed for London. Remain at Red Alert Prime, and stay tunedto this channel for further bulletins." With that, the telly returned to theregularly scheduled program: a discussion of Welsh conjunctions. "Oh this is dreadful!" said Cynthia. "What shall we do?" "Go to Red Alert Prime, of course," said Lady Parchpain. "That means. " That made me feelgood. We were us. And we were having a baby. And Chicago was in thepast.We went downstairs. The first person we ran into was Jack Todd, aregional manager from Charlotte, who was there with his daughter Nikki.I recognized her from a picture he had shown me once. She was a deadringer for her mother.I walked over and gave Jack a kiss. "Jack, how are you?" He smiled. Heand I always got along reasonably well. He treated me like one of hispeople, not like the rare husband. I then helped Anna out to my vehicle, which I had brought around to the front. Within a few minutes, we were heading back to our house. I could finally call it "our" house.The drive was uneventful, other than the additional ten inches of snow that had fallen the night before. The world around us was once more blanketed in a cover of white. I don't know that I could recall a winter when we had received so much snow. Some of the lots that we passed contained piles that were up to fifteen feet in. There would be no visitors at all including Marie and Roddy other than the doctors and nurses that were appointed to. His long time friend Ian watched all these quietly by the side. He finally patted Alex on the shoulder and gave him a sympathetic look. ‘I’ll be fine,’ he assured his friend. ‘I’ll get a cot up for you in the room. If you need anything else, Kathy the nurse will attend to you as well. She was assigned to care for your grandfather. Don’t think. She is a motherly figure, not your.