I get some charting out of the way and by then it is time for rounds. I get the vitals on the guy in 4A and note he is due for discharge to the nursin... home for comfort measures only. I continue on down the hall to the lady, Anne, in 2B. She is sleeping with Valium on board and will leave tomorrow via family who have a guest house ready to take care of her in. I check her vitals adjust her sheets and clip the call light to her side rail. I get ready to leave when a framed photo catches my eye.. "At worst you might appearto be a tomboy, but I am sure you can pass as female. You do it onstage every night. You just need to tone some things down a bit, andwork on some other things. I am an occasional actress, remember. Iknow what's needed. We don't have much time, so we need to get busy."Under Leila's direction Larry to a bath and shaved his whole body. Onhis upper lip and chin Leila used wax rather than a razor, and thenspecial cream to soothe the shock to the skin. She took to. Well, I would just love to sit with you sometime and maybe, you know, kind of pick your brain... ?" I'd be delighted, Gloria." My wife smiled, "Though if you're interested in the secret to my success, I'm afraid it's no secret at all. I inherited my money and my position." Oh, I know that Mrs. Travis!" Gloria said, "But unlike many who are born to wealth, you not only haven't squandered your inheritance, you've built an even larger empire. That's unusual for anyone, and practically unheard of. Oedipus Falls ? population 294, with only about half a dozen surnames between them.Becky Shepherd surveyed the village shop that she helped her mother to run. At this time of the morning there was only one other customer in the shop.Becky was an apple cheeked buxom young country girl of 21 years. Her family had farmed the land in the parts since time out of mind and still did. The other individual in the shop was one of her farming family ? an old man who had retired just a few years ago. He.