I took her where she could hear me, and told her that I was going to start playing a game of pool with three other people, and while we were doing tha... I wanted her to go sit next to them with an empty beer cup and make small talk with them. She was very nervous about this, so I explained the situation I had in mind. She would just be friendly with them, let them know that her husband was playing pool and didn’t have time for her, and her friends left, so she is just bored. I told her to. His face was blue and he did not appear to be breathing, so Andy was sure that the man was dead. Yes, there was no question of it when Andy bent over the man; he must have died in just the last few minutes. The woman burst into tears and Li Sun tried to comfort her, but had little success. Andy's further examination of the man showed that he had a broken neck and probably would have died very soon, no matter what kind of current medical care he might have received. At that time, there was just. "How you doing Ms. Samuels?" the man behind the desk asked Tom."Not the greatest Jack," Tom responded as he walked past.Then Tom suddenly paused, not sure which surprised him more, that he hadsomehow known that the security guard's name was Jack.... or that he hadresponded so easily to Meredith's name. Both facts left him feelingsomewhat shaken. And Tom was so preoccupied with those thoughts, that hewas not even conscious of the fact that he was instinctively headingstraight for Meredith's. But at night, the little cell phone looked as if it were grafted to her ear.Tess and I would look at Kim, look at each other, and exchange sly smiles.Ain't love grand?It was the Wednesday night before the opening of the Samsung. Kim's traditional exclusive night of love. But, right now at least, she was talking to Roland on the phone. Tess and I had just turned off the television set and, as we sat there alone, I brought up a topic I'd been thinking about a lot."You know, Tess, this trip to the.