He didn't know when she was getting to town and figured it would be better to wait and see if she would call him. If she didn't call him, he would cal... her in the morning to make sure that she would be in Zack's office at ten o'clock.In spite of his better judgment, Tom reached for the Scotch bottle but before he could pour himself a drink someone knocked on his door. Somehow Tom knew it was Lisa and he became angry. Not at Lisa but at his inability to move as fast as he wanted to. He was. When I walked inside I could hear the excited voices of the girls as they checked their new home out. They were already arguing over which bedroom they were going to get. I smiled as I looked around the complete stainless steel kitchen with all new modern appliances. I almost laughed out loud with the picture in my mind of Mark making his glue sandwiches on the new stove. There was a center eating bar set up with the five stools already in place. Hell, maybe she had already furnished it for. Two men were playing djeridoos. The lubras were putting baskets of yabbies near the pyre. There were more folks than there had been in Riverton. A very large gin in a gaudily-flowered dress ran over and hugged me."Hello, Meena. It's been too long. This is Weena and this is Patrick." I turned to Weena, "Meena is Jacky's mother." So I now Patrick's almost-granny!" she laughed."You must be happy today." Sure am. Alice good and smart. They'll give me grandkids. You Weena-nungungi? Jacky tol' me. ” Anne paused briefly. “Other times, you… you pull me into bed with you. You talk to me like I’m Carla.”Noel turned red. “I’m sorry, Anne. God, Ray, I’m sorry. I didn’t know…. I….”Anne moved closer to him and put her hands on his. “Shhhh, it’s okay. I know you think of her when you look at me. That’s normal. We just want to help you.”Ray joined the conversation. “Noel, we can’t begin to know what you’re feeling, but we do know there’s an important part of her death that you’re missing. You.