She was letting her dog out, and must have just gotten up. She was wearing blue panties, a white t-shirt, and her hair was messy. She smiled, said hel...o, and asked how things worked out with El. I said "come have a cup of coffee, and I'll tell you all about it". I was thinking she may clean up and come by when she said ok and went in, but she walked around the front and came out to the deck through my house.I was a bit shocked but got her a coffee, and we went back out to the deck. She sat. ‘So you are new to New York,” said Mrs Renata Ricci. ‘Well come on, I invite you to come with me to my sister’s restaurant that’s not far from here. Although I call it my sister’s restaurant it is owned by her husband’s family and she runs it during the day. We’ll eat with her, she’s expecting me today.’ ‘Oh darling your noble nose looks very majestic today,’ Renata said to her look-alike sister Dona De Luca, who touched her nose and asked had Renata been drinking. ‘I’m sorry for speaking. This is Julie's diary. Julie. Our daughter. Do you really want to know? Does she want you to know? She trusts you. She trusts her mother, too. Are you going to betray that trust? Why? For a little thrill?Actually, I was thinking it might be a pretty big thrill.What do you do with what you read? Ask her? Tell your spouse? What? What!Then my mind cleared. The squirrels went off to bother someone else. I wasn't going to do it, at least not this afternoon at any rate. I picked up the book, closed. It suits you. You’re good looking in a quirky kind of way. I like that. I saw you in the supermarket once, at the far end of my aisle. I walked towards you intending to introduce myself but you bolted the second you set eyes on me.I finish my shower and check your window: you’re back in position behind the scope. 2:58 p.m. Damn! The school run’s imminent, I’ve got mere minutes.I charge back into my bedroom, face gleaming with moisture, baggy white dressing gown covering my nakedness. I stand.