She neverexpected this. Anna took her arm and led her to the center of the group. ThenAnna spoke, "Mary, the whole village wants to welcome you home....Wehave come up with a surprise from the whole village for you. Firstwe have some flowers to make your house smell nice." The crowd parted for Tommy to present the flowers. He handed themto her. She looked at him and then looked again. She couldn'tbelieve it was him. Finally, "Is that you, Tommy?" He said yes in a low voice. She handed the. By the time the operator declared me ready myconfidence was fully restored. Fortunately the cashier was not awarethat the signature I placed on the bill bore little resemblance to thatof Joan.Rather than return to the room I telephoned from the lobby. Afterseveral rings a very sleepy voice answered grumpily. Joan insisted thatshe only wanted to sleep and refused to come down for breakfast. I amnot sure that she was still awake when I announced that in that case Iwould go shopping and call her. Istanbul After The Return: A Week After The EventEzgi, wearing taut ponytail hair and sports clothes, was walking towards her house, having done her morning run. Khan woke up early in the morning and sat down to work until his wife returned. When Ezgi returned home, he quietly entered. He hugged Khan from behind and kissed his cheek and went to the kitchen to prepare breakfast. Khan said he had to leave immediately and left the house. Ezgi was going to have breakfast alone today. He sat down at. I didn't want to be alone right then. Florida was a long ways away. Too far just to be going somewhere private to think. That was the first moment I started to realize that my marriage might really be ended. While I drove over to the farm, I kept asking myself whether I could have maybe lived with what Ellen was forcing me to do for her. It wasn't like I was suffering from Gloria's attentions. If anybody was suffering it had to have been Ellen. It was her plan though, and she must have thought.