For a split second I was frustrated with the situation, I had left my umbrella in my car. It was right at that moment I remembered a quote I had read ...omewhere, ‘Sometimes God calms the storm, Sometimes He lets the storm rage and calms His child.’ I realized then, I wasn’t really upset. I didn’t feel as if I was in any danger. It was only wind and rain. I felt as calm as that storm felt out of control. I found a spot under some trees and dropped my purse. I knelt down and began to roll my. “Hi, this is Dan. I am sorry I was late getting to the room. I’m here now.” Maybe she changed her mind and decided not to come to his room. He got a small bottle of Gentleman Jack from the room bar and poured it straight. He downed all most all of it in one gulp. He thought, I might as well get drunk since I missed being with the most beautiful woman I have ever met. It was 9:35 p.m. and he had downed a second straight bourbon. He heard a knock on his door with a female voice saying. Sam though O'Grady's was pretty sophisticated, by East Carolina standards. It was a narrow storefront place with an impressive front-to-back carved oak bar. There were cloth-covered tables all about the stone-floored interior. There were Irish flags and other paraphernalia hanging from the rough brick interior walls that bordered a long row of wooden booths, built with tall backs for maximum privacy. Streams of light poured in from the eight-foot-tall, early-19th-century windows that looked. Now they were going out with Susan and George. They had gone out together a couple of times and he and George had made sure the two wives were never alone together. That included telling them only one could go use a bathroom at the same time.They seemed to understand and never complained about the strict rules. Today they were going to a public picnic put on by their neighborhood association. They arrived at the park in separate cars, and meet near the parking lot. They walked over to where a.