I hungup stunned: Kelly said to me "what's the matter Susie? You look likeyou've seen a ghost"; Shoni butted in "if that brother of mine has upsetyou ...'ll kill him" I looked at the two of them and said in an amazedvoice, "he's just told me that he loves me, how can he? I mean I'm not"Kelly butted in then "yes you are, you are a loving caring beautiful girland worthy of his love". Shoni followed on reminding me "remember Susannahe knows all about you and he simply doesn't care, so stop fretting. ” I stood up, “I amkeeping your keys till we leave just in case you haveideas,” I said as I walked to my room.I took a shower, put on fresh clothes and went to myoffice. Jackie was still in the living room with Clyde.I opened my safe, counted out $10,000, walked into thekitchen and placed the money in a paper bag.When I turned Jackie was standing behind me. “You have$10,000 just laying around?”“Well you might need it in a hurry,” I said.“For. My eyes kept going back to Sam's bag. What was I going to do? Should I tell Mia? His parents? My mom? I wasn't even sure what was in the bag. Maybe he had a legitimate excuse and I'd just raise furor over nothing. Given all the drama that we faced over the last however many months, I hated to think I'd add to it for no reason.Maybe I should just confront Sam. Yeah, right. That would go well.A knock on the door startled me out of my thoughts."Come on, Slowpoke!" Shay called, through the door.. ”“So how do you know right from wrong?”“By following the maxim ‘do as little harm as possible’.”“An interesting take on the concept. Wouldn’t it be better to strive to do good?”I shook my head, “As the proverb rightly says, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. By evaluating the path which creates the least harm or the least ‘evil’, if you want to call it that, you avoid the temptation to try to ‘do good’ and thus run roughshod over individual rights. The perfect example is ‘think of.