I forgot." We know, and that's why we didn't remind you," Katie said as she kissed me."You planned it ... I mean sending me to the store that is," I a...ked."Yes we did, but we didn't think you would take almost two hours, doing so, you gave us enough time to get everything ready," Judy said as she hugged me."Happy birthday sweetie," she said as she broke the hug."Thank you," I said as I walked over to the cake and looked down on it. I smiled as I saw the Marmaduke image on the cake."When did you. Unable to think what to do, Alicia watched the man's face suddenly crumple, with an echo of an accusation. The image of the smooth, shiny quarter filled her thoughts, and she bit her lip. He started to turn away."Wait!" she said. She opened her purse and rummaged in it for a moment. Then she pulled out a 20-dollar bill. "You can have this if you give me the quarter."The man lifted his right hand, the quarter pinched between thumb and forefinger. His bloodshot, blue eyes stared up at Alicia,. “This is hard for me. But I must apologize. I was incredibly thoughtless and can only hope you will forgive my grave insult to you.”Becca froze as she processed his words. Instead of the accusation she expected, his sudden contrition caught her completely off guard. “Why Dimitri,thank you for your concern but I can't imagine why you should apologize.”“And when you left here last night, where did you go, eh? You went to meet a man, yes?”Yes, Becca did go meet a man, a man who happened to be the. "Yeah," said Claire."You said you checked the formulas," said Margie. "Why did you do that?" Because there were some numbers that just didn't add up. They sort of jumped out at me the first time. I thought some numbers had been transposed, you know?" Sure," said Margie."Happens all the time. But that's what we're supposed to catch. That's what Rick was supposed to catch." The thing is, they weren't transposed," said Claire. "I looked them up in the supporting documents and the numbers were all.