"My cousin's mother just died. She's a good woman, had a lot a'troubles, and she going down to live with her aunt and uncle in Trenton. Her husband's ...n the damn navy. So take her down there. Since you're gettin' a late start, you'll likely have to stop around Hopewell somewhere. I suppose you might get to Princeton if the roads are good. Anyhow, she's got a rig and all her stuff's packed, I hope, should be, so go fetch her and get going."He gave me some money for food and lodging, told me to. " (The Plague)"The same way ... the same way he ... and they destroyed my ancestor Chetak." Nanac snarled softly not looking at Helen.Helen's eyes narrowed and she looked at him. "You should learn of your ancestors before you defend them Nanac. Chetak was one of the vilest men I have ever known in the over four thousand years of life I have and he was a disgrace to our race!" She growled back viciously. "I was there Nanac! I saw what he had built. Lycavorian women ... our women used like. “I do, but then, what can I do? I don’t have the time to look for a maid,” I replied.“You don’t have to look. Why don’t you hire Suma? She works at my house too.”Suma was a maid at the office and used to clean the floor I worked on. She was a very talkative and chirpy woman and was generally quite well known. I liked Ms. Reddy’s idea and next day asked Suma if she would work for me. She agreed and that reduced a lot of work load.Suma and I developed a sort of a rapport. She used to tell me. Maggie and Allison shuttled back and forth from the kitchen with bags of chips, plates of sliced tomatoes, onions, mustard and ketchup, and bowls of potato salad. A real production line got going as everyone suddenly realized how hungry they were. Skip and Theo were kept pretty busy for the next hour or so, cooking up grub for the rest of us. Every so often, either Allison or Maggie would hand them cold cans of soda, and one time Maggie stuffed a hot dog in a bun into Theo's mouth as he was.