I guess when you walk into the property you live seeing a six-foot stranger in the hallway you get scared. Putting my hand in my pocket, I removed my ...allet to retrieve my driving license, then handed it over to her to inspect. “If you have been here a while, you must have seen some letters with that name on them,” I said.She nodded her head up and down to say yes. “Sorry, seeing you like that was a shock. Wasn’t used to seeing someone else in the building.”She closed the main door then entered. No, the risk was too great."Frankly, incest doesn't bother me all that much," Carol said. "If it was up to me, and not the rest of the world, as much in love as the two of you appear to be, I'd say have at it. No, I'm concerned about your well-being, Darla, yours and your brother's. I see a multitude of problems. If you become lovers..." When we become lovers," Darla said."Okay, when you become lovers, you must somehow hide your feelings for each other from everyone you know, which won't be. He declined.After a while they loosened up enough to actually give out a bit of information rather than (as is cops' usual way) simply acting as bottomless receptacles for whatever I'd tell them. Both Golden and Quiller were, they told me, still alive and kicking. Golden, in fact, was no worse than woozy with a bad headache; he'd actually regained consciousness unaided, and had been the one to call for help. I'd shot Quiller in the chest all right, but I'd missed everything really important—it. Our hands touched once in a while and quite often she was falling on me laughing. We stopped to buy a cigarette pack and smoked our way along, one after the other. The smoke felt like incense to us and with the slight downpour the weather was just adding to the romance we had inadvertently begun.The tingling of fingers and the slight hanging on to each others’ fingers had started to happen. That was really sweet. By that time the rain had started to come down a bit heavily. A park was nearby.