Lisa moved to the closet and quickly sorted the gym shoes, keeping two pair and add the rest to the pile. The shoe boxes added one pair of 3" sandals ...o the shoe rack and one pair 4" white heels, and a pair of 5" black spike heels. "Mrs. C. where did you get these?"I wore them with a Halloween costume last year Ms. Simon and they hurt my feet the whole night." Put them on now," said Lisa tossing them to the kneeling teacher. "Now stand up Mrs. C."Mary stood and on wobbling legs blushed as her. Those good people had retired and moved back to India where their modest income would effectively be multiplied several times. That left her residing with two cousins in their early 20s, one male and one female. Both of them had done well in school and were establishing careers. That meant that they were gone many hours of the day so she could be pretty independent.She went to public school in a racially diverse neighborhood so was accepted without any of the hassles that sometimes took place. When Jess nodded, comprehension dawned and Leslie gasped. ‘That was Nick?’ Jess nodded her head, fiddling with her coffee cup. ‘The funny thing is that I never understood what happened between us. Nick seemed like he was falling in love with me too, then he just turned cold and ended our relationship with no warning at all. It’s haunted me all these years.’ She frowned as she slowly shook her head. ‘He said some things yesterday that made me think that something else happened, that there was. Fortunately Elise took to Helen immediately; within moments they were sharing lighthearted stories of the sort that would only make a fellow CPA laugh, toasting the night and complaining about the uncaring tardiness of men. Soon Eleanor was able to slip the powder into her victim’s drink entirely unnoticed. Elise even toasted the poisoned shot: ?to new experiences.? Indeed. The results were predictable, if amusing. Within minutes Elise was nearly dropping from her stool, her green eyes.