Helen's going to go intowork then she'll come back and relieve me so I can go in and do theclosing," Rose said as she stood and added, "Come on and I'...l startlunch for you two." Bobby is coming here?" Jeff asked again in a panic and added, "Mom,he's going to see me like this?" Obviously. Honey, Bobby is coming here wearing the same exact thingsyou're wearing! Helen and I got the same exact things when we shopped!Look, we did that on purpose so you both would be wearing the samestuff. You're. It--" Were you drugged, Laura," I said, interrupting whatever she'd been about to say. She looked up at me and held my eyes with hers for the first time. I couldn't read the play of emotions that chased each other across her face."I don't know," she finally admitted. "Maybe the first time, I... maybe the first time I had--." She stopped, swallowing hard. "The first time I had... sex with Brian, I know I was awfully drunk." Her head dropped again."But I wasn't drugged... sometimes I wasn't even. I also know that you married me only to save your life. If you want to leave me, do it now, please. Once you are gone, they may take me back in. They'll scorn me and ridicule me, but that is better than being left behind later in foreign lands." Do you wish to be left behind, Hildburg? I could understand that. I must be hateful to you, seeing what I did to you." I ... I ... don't want to be left behind," she answered, looking down at her feet."Then, Hildburg, you are my wife; I plighted my. Higgins, we're just getting you up in your bed a little, it's better for your circulation that way."Jack looked at the IV running into his arm. "How long." He pointed to the plastic tubing."Oh probably another day or two. Kind of depends on how you react and how your vital signs are doing. We'll know more in the morning. Look Mr. Higgins I'm going to give you a shot now and it will help you sleep."Just what he needed, he thought, more sleep. "OK." He felt the prick in his upper arm and then in.