“Before you do that” I replied, now full of bravado. “You might have some explaining to do yourself.” “What the hell are you babbling on abo...t?”I’d never in a million years do anything to hurt my Mum and I didn’t want to hurt her then when I pulled the photos out of my back pocket and handed them to her.“You might want to see these” I said in a calm voice. “Before you start casting aspersions.”I thought Mum was going to faint when she went all white and I had to help her sit down before she. It so happened in those days that my granny had to go to a relatives place for a week and my grandfather was all alone at their home, so my parents thought it would be right if I went and stayed there. I dodn’t mind it since I had my cousins to play with since I love kids. Everything went fine for 2 days. In the night my grandfather used to sleep in his room and me and my mami with her kids used to sleep in the room adjoining it. There was a single bed where in I slept, while the kids and mami. Em and I talked about Europe, and about how her Dad's family had plenty of money, but they didn't get along well with her father."How long would your father need to go to Europe to finish his research?" He doesn't know. He thinks maybe a month and a half, but it might be shorter, because he has been able to find out the answers to a lot of his questions by correspondence, and by using the libraries at some of the universities he goes to visit. Mostly, he needs to see the areas he's writing. She stopped, smiled at him; ''Oh yes, I remember' and embraced him in a soft kiss. 'Don't you get distracted by the other women tonight, I'm first and I intend to have more than my fair share of you!'She took him through the beautifully furnished house and led him upstairs; he had trouble following at first; was she to have him entertain her before the barbecue? His emotions were confused by this; oh how he wanted to be allowed to please this woman, his eyes once again trained upon that.