Now tell me, dear Jen, how far you're planningon travelling on this train today.' 'To the end of the line. I'm visiting a ... friend.' 'Really? Well, ...'m getting off at the next station, so you have a choiceto make, my dear.' 'A choice?' 'Yes. You have to decide if you want to stay on this train, carry on to seeyour 'friend' and leave me with just the souvenirs you've given me, or youcan delay seeing your friend for a day and come with me when I get off.' Sheglanced at her watch. 'You have a. Shared your girlfriends both separately and in threesomes. So, Jerry who may well have been celibate since Eve’s physical problems began has been lusting for his daughter as well. It’s certainly not out of the question, you know?”Josh shrugged as if to invalidate Beth’s perception. He’d always known that either he or his brother could have been Laura’s progenitor. But since Jerry accepted that he was her father he might not have been as lustily inclined toward Laura as he was.Beth went on, “I. Visit my friends. They don't appear to behome. I'll just wait for them." Do you live here?"She won't recognize Victor, and it's likely she already knows the answerto that question, so I won't be able to lie. "No." Then I'm going to have to ask you to leave."Damn. I looked at her. Then back at the locked door. Then at the deadcell phone in my hand.She made an impatient "let's go" motion with her hands.I walked to the stairs and she followed me.She escorted me out of my own building. "Have a good. Finally, she put away the camera. Looking up, she sniffed. "Late, isn't it," she whispered.A cold wind blew across the city. It blew across the bare broken body of Paula Lowdeck as it was lifted into a plastic bag and blew away the ashes of Christopher Miller leaving a charred bench in its wake. When the horizon glinted with the first rays of the sun a few moments later, both the man on the roof and the woman in the park had disappeared.Constance always awoke before me. She said it wasn't.