That isn't a bad thing. I'll just go tothe bakery tomorrow morning, and if they aren't ready for me I will workfor free. It will be like training." Bu... then things got worse," Maria wailed, holding up a letter. "Thiscame in the mail. Mr. Hodgins, the owner of this house, died a fewmonths ago. He always kept the rent down for me. We only pay $400 amonth for this place. But with him gone, a nephew or something owns itnow, and he wants more money. He said he could do $900 a month, which isprobably. If somebody shows up here that doesn’t belong, they stand out like a pink elephant on a pogo stick. Further, because of the threats that happened with that minister from Ohio you geared up your perimeter surveillance pretty well. There are still some things I think you should do.”“Such as,” Dave asked as he leaned forward.“Rethink your security. Teach them how to patrol and surveil so that both of them can’t be taken out at the same time. Give them night vision equipment. For a few months, I’d. ?”“But ... we were having so much fun.”“Really?”“Something new to complain about.”“Why?”“Wives complain ... it’s a law.”“Really?”“How else do husbands know they’re idiots if wives don’t complain?”“Yeah,” said Zoe.“The rule,” said Cynthia, “is this ... men marry hoping their wives never change. Wives marry to change their men.”“I must have missed something when we were children.”And Tyche said, “According to mom and Auntie Cyn ... you missed out on lots when you were growing up.”Then she said,. I've seen it a thousand times working in hospitals and the loved ones coming in to say goodbye to the dying or identifying a loved one that had died. Michelle went with you disguised as your brother, because he couldn't go at this time. When he wakes, he is going to be devastated that his mother died and he wasn't able to heal her. I just hope he lets us tell him Michelle made a choice, her life or yours. It was all the power she had left, and I just fear he will blame her for not saving.