." My precocious daughter.We dropped the trailer off and went to the Italian restaurant for dinner.'"Sandy, this is where your dad and I went on our f...rst date." Really?" Sandy said."Really," I answered. "And I didn't even know it was a date. I thought I was bringing a bright young high school girl out to eat after working with her on her trigonometry."Dinner was a happy affair. Maybe happier for them than me, because I had this nagging feeling that Glenda was going to be a problem. I pushed it. I went down to the finished basement and found Anthony racking balls on the pool table. ‘Christ, man, what happened to your face?’ he asked when he saw my black eye. ‘Did you get that at work?’ ‘Good to see you, too, Anthony,’ I said. ‘Yeah, I got it at work. It’s been a shitty week.’ ‘I got the cure for that.’ He nodded to a battered coffee table where he’d placed a bottle of cola, a bottle of Bacardi, and a bag of rapidly melting ice. His drink was already made, and an empty cup waited for. .. OR I'LL TELL HIM YOUASSAULTED ME..." COME BACK AT 3:00 WHEN I GET OFF OF WORK." That gave meover an hour to kill... what was I going to do?Then she handed me money and a note "TAKE THIS LIST AND GOBUY THE THINGS ON IT..."The list was all personal items for a woman. The money wasobviously enough to pay for it and more... the envelope shegave it to me in was a pay envelope... if I ran she wasprobably going to tell Willie I stole it from her...Yup, I bought the stockings on the 1st floor, the. ." She was frustrated that she could not reveal her real reservations."Besides, Kiato is going as well," said Arora. "I shall bring you back a little something, eh?" he smiled."Just yourself, my husband," she said, a bit relieved that Arora's friend from the village would be going along as well."And Hyota here will keep you company."The son sat sullenly as usual but looked up into his mother's eyes."Then if you must be away, at least I will have Hyota," she said trying to take the young man's.