" he trailed off.Sherry chuckled. "Now you can call me an expert."... the horror of my old friend perhaps affected me somewhat... They lay intertwined...on the couch, resting, neither speaking. It took Sal about ten minutes before he remembered why he'd come to our house in the first place. He worked to pull himself out from under her with a serious expression on his face. "I'm sorry, but I think I need to talk to Carl. You said he's upstairs?"Sherry resisted his attempts to extricate himself.. "Brock's wife turned back down the hall, shaking her head and laughing, causing Emma to blush clear to her temples. Jude was already pushing the door shut, hauling her body up against his own. The sheet lay forgotten on the floor when he carried her back to the bed."Don't forget," she said when he laid her down. "You and Brock promised to finish setting up the rest of the furniture in those attic rooms. The entire Hunter clan will be here in two days and I want to make sure we have some place. I remember her better than my dad, except I can’t remember her name. She held me and cried when she said my dad couldn’t come see me anymore. And she brought me to the convent at [redacted]. I’ve lived here ever since. I go to school here and everything. I asked once why I can’t just go to the public school in town, like everybody else, but Mother Superior Mary says my dad stipulated I had to be schooled in this very convent, if something happened to him. She says she doesn’t know why he picked. The next morning the three candidates were assembled in the waiting room, waiting for their physicals. The nurse escorted each of the young women into the examining room in turn for their complete physical evaluation. Upon completion, the candidates were instructed to return to the office and prepare for their evening evaluation.The women, Janet, Cherpree and Lisa were scheduled to attend at least two social functions tomorrow evening. The women, would each have dates and attend a formal.