." Hannahtold the rest of the story with an occasional input from me here andthere. "So anyway," she said as I put the last piece of bacon in mymouth,..."they decided it would be a good idea for us to get out of townlast night." Wow," Lizi said."I'm glad you made it here though," Camille said with a smile. "Well, areyou ready to continue the tour?" Is there a restroom we can stop at first?" Hannah asked."Sure," Esmie said, "it even has a changing table if Sofia needschanged." Her eyes sparkled. " She went over to her mother at the typewriter. "Mommy, I made up this tree, and thought we could get together and make up a bunch more for Christmas."Barely noticing the crayon drawn tree, Michael took it and set it on the other side of the typewriter. "Very nice, dear. I'll put it up on the fridge, later." No, mommy, it's for-" Muriel, honey, mommy's very busy right now. Why don't you go upstairs and play with your dollies?"In real life, neither noticed their daughter run upstairs with tears. We were on US 183 north of Phillipsburg, Kansas. The Nebraska border was about five miles ahead of us and traffic was heavy. Not only that, but we didn’t seem to actually be in the middle of nowhere after all. Every time I looked around I could see a farm house, which meant if we pulled off the road they might see us and come investigate. We crossed the border and ten minutes later drove across a bridge over Harlan County Lake, a nice-sized body of water near Alma, Nebraska. There were boats. See you at seven."Promptly at seven the door bell rang. It was a different Eve that stood there. The chic, the confidence had gone. In place of the glamour there was a woman, still beautiful, but with an aura of wretchedness, and tension. I opened my arms and Eve rushed straight in to be held close. This was not desire, nor any vestige of lust; it was comfort of one to the other. I kicked the door closed with my heel all the time maintaining the hold I had around Eve. I felt her relax a little.