Thomas again and cleaned out his litter box before turning off the lights and going to bed. But she could not sleep, she tossed and turned alert for e...ery sound, but nothing??midnight came and then dawn and then morning?.she would not let herself be disappointed she simply told herself that he wasn’t likely to come. For the first time in her life she spoke to Mr. Thomas ?Well Mr. Thomas? she began as she mixed his food and he sat on the table watching her ?you know what happened yesterday, I. Closing her eyes as the shadow was applied lightly to her eyelids. She had never been so pampered in her life. When the cosmetics had been applied, she saw a beautiful woman looking back at her from her reflection. She had put on her clothes in the changing room, and when she left the building, Charleshad pulled the limousine to the entrance and was holding the door for her. Once he was driving her again, he looked in his rear view mirror, and told Susan, “You really look beautiful, Miss Susan.. .." The president looked around the room.A man wearing a rumpled sportcoat and horn-rimmed glasses cleared his throat. He looked as if he felt completely out of place, and indeed, amongst the sharply tailored business suits, crisp military uniforms, and hundred dollar haircuts, his clothing and disheveled, thinning hair set him well apart from the others."Uh, Dr. Sobieski, Mr. President." He mumbled. Fortunately, the microphone in front of him amplified his voice enough for the others to hear,. She asked more seriously, when she saw his response was just a shrug and a pained look in his eyes, ‘What’s the matter?’ ‘It’s my boy, Mei Chun. They think he might have cancer.’ ‘Oh no… Oh, I am so sorry. How old is he?’ ‘He’s forty-one. Three kids.’ ‘Oh no.’ ‘They aren’t sure, going to run more tests, but it has me scared. I don’t want to be alive when my kids go. It would shatter me. Losing my wife was bad enough, but losing my son would kill me.’ She didn’t know how to respond, what he.