"I believe you. You were too hard to convince! Sorryabout that, but I had to know." No problem," I said. "I had to know too, and that's why it took...threedays, because I wanted to speak with them about it." Right. So when can I see you?" I'm not busy tonight," I said, smiling at him over the phone and at mygirlish self in the mirror. So fun!"It's a date!" he said. "How about I pick you up at seven?" What should I wear?" Anything you want," he said."Thank you," I said. "But I mean, where. I will have my money, in full, one way or another" Dan will kill me if I ever touch his share" Yes he would, if he was still here, but I would do worse believe me. Anyway, you don't have to worry about that two bit wannabe gangster anymore"The words hit Ray like a thundering train and his knees felt like jelly unable to support his weight."What do you mean by that?" Let's just say, you pay me the one and a half million, you keep the other half million and there will be no comebacks. I told you. "Try it with THREE daughters. Betty would have been a handful all by herself, and Sharon seemed insatiable, but Robbi... THAT girl was a nympho glutton. It took 6 times to make her quiet down. I had had to get Dave to help me out. She wore both of us out." They had staggered around for a week afterward. She had been as fresh as a daisy after she was done. That was a week before Ricky had left for the Navy. He had rescued them, and HE was walking funny when he got on the plane. She was trying to. She had been hit on by plenty of men, at work, at play, and even at Church. She had always just smiled and turned them aside never giving them a serious thought. Her life had always been so full and rich with Dave; the others were not even worth thinking about. Yet now she couldn't seem to get Tony out of her mind since their last evening together. And she had lied to her dear husband. How could she lie to this man she loved so much?She had told Dave most of what had happened. The basic story.