"Tell her to hurry up," I said as I preheated the over to four hundred. I pulled the two pans of cinnamon rolls that mom had made out of the refrigera...or."Tony there's a girl out there waiting to scream when you catch her in her panties, and you're in here hiding." I'm not hiding. I'm getting breakfast for my guests." You're hiding." I..." What happened? I thought we could talk about anything. No secrets." We can. I just... it's... Sometimes, it's not my secret to tell," I said looking at the. I don't think that broke his heart, but it disappointed my father. He really wanted a grandchild to carry his name." I can understand his feelings." I could, too. After he got the bad news about his daughter-in-law, he told me that it was up to me. He was almost in tears." What a heavy burden that must have been." Yes it is! His request continues to haunt me. I have trouble sorting out my feelings about it all the time. I loved him and would do anything for him. Some days, I really want to have. ‘You shouldn’t come sneakin’ up on people like that, naughty Mummy! You’re a very bad, bad Mummy!’Whatever I could have imagined she might say, it wasn’t that – the effrontery of the girl just amazed me, it literally took my breath away. She and my lover had been cheating on me behind my back, and far from her showing any remorse at my distress, it seemed that the fault was mine for coming home early and catching them in flagrante! Before I could start to put those sentiments into words,. That was the whole point of the conversation after all, to scope out howmuch might be left in the coffers. She probably wanted to buy a bloodyhelicopter and keep it on the balcony."Dad made most of his money in the 80s, god bless Maggie, but was cleverenough to get out before Black Monday. He spent his last few yearsshorting the market, mostly." When did he die?" Oh, a while ago. I was only 14," he helped himself to another sip ofhis gin, and wished he didn't have to drive home, "a heart attack.