"She took a deep breath. "Every summer the family goes to camp for a couple of weeks. The smaller kids, and for some reason Marion and a couple of t...e other older cousins, would go to this regular vacation camp up in the mountains. Everyone else would go to Camp Curie down in southern Missouri. The Curie Clan has owned Camp Curie for generations, maybe even since before the Civil War."At that point I interrupted her. Holy shit! Why hadn't I made the connection. "You are a Curie? You are. Understandably enough, she had decamped to Bath for the colder months with a wealthy admirer where she could have more frivolous distraction and fashionable entertainment.Tobias beamed dreamily in recollection of Meg’s lavishly bestowed bounties, which certainly made the journey go faster. No doubt his fellow passengers thought by his beatific expression, that he was deep in spiritual communion with his Maker and left him alone and respectfully undisturbed until the coach jolted to a stop.As. I suspected he just wanted to 'steal' two weeks of free labor from me and had no intention of keeping me on once he had to start paying. That was fine with me, as I hoped to have a job with the Anderson-Williams collective by then, or failing that, I'd get to know the mechanics from the other garages during the lunchtimes, to try to impress them enough to be reconsidered by their bosses if I needed another job after two or four weeks.My new boss put me to work right away, lending me a pair of. " How committed are you?" Mom, what's up with you? You know how committed I am to going there. Ihave a Northwestern wildcat cheerleader poster on my bedroom wall." You know I didn't like you putting that up." Okay, okay, but why are you teasing me about this?" Well honey, I have learned about an obscure program they offer atNorthwestern that might just keep you from going to State U." Really! Count me in." The plan would assist much like an affirmative action program to getyou into the school.