Tonight was Mary's sixteenth birthday. It was a subdued event, it seemed, because apart from Delyse, there were only two other girls present. He recog...ised neither, but he did recognise easily in both of them a wish to be elsewhere.He noted that the party dress which Mary wore had too many frills. It was a father's choice. And the new hairstyle was too affected. These things confirmed, for Andrew, a need to act.He had decided over the previous two weeks that she required saving, and that he was. She haddivorced when I was only five years old. She worked her way up thecorporate ladder and two years ago had been promoted to executive VP incharge of the conglomerate's pharmaceutical division. Smokey was thesecond au pair she had hired in those two years.I didn't relish the thought of facing Smokey and telling her I had quityet another miserable job. I knew she'd snitch on me during the weeklyphone call my mother graciously found the time to make. Mother wouldn't behappy! Not in the least!. He knew the form he wore would vanish soon. I went to the bars and kissed his cheek goodnight."See you in the morning Byron." Goodnight Eliot."Taking his clothes with me, I locked the main basement door behind me, and as I ascended into the main house the screams and the growling began. I shut the wooden door at the top of the stairs and the noise of Byron's suffering was trapped as well.I finish rolling the last of the felt balls between my hands, rinse it and set it on the drying rack over. MONICA KAUFMAN, WSB ANCHOR: We are going to go live to Buckhead, where reporter Ross Cavitt has some disturbing news.ROSS CAVITT, WSB REPORTER: Thank you, Monica. I'm live here at the Ritz Carlton hotel, on the corner of Peachtree and Piedmont, in the heart of Atlanta's Buckhead, where not more than 10 minutes ago, Mr. Michael Collins, a senior manager at Datatronics, Corporation, was being nominated by his peers, and when we discovered that he, and two other companions, are really.