I just smiled and pointed upstairs to the second floor. ‘You guys moved’, I told them They disappeared upstairs to inspect their new digs. After a...lot of noise coming down from the second floor, so did they. They wanted to know why I had taken all the trouble to move their stuff when they were scheduled to go back east next weekend. ‘That’s what you think, ‘I said.’ I explained my phone call with Uncle Vito and that if they wanted, they could stay until school started. There were two very happy. The more drinks she drank, the more intelligent he seemed. Elaine was used to having the occasional glass of red or white wine but today was the start of her new life so there were no limits. She began feeling a bit woozy so when Marc offered to take her home, she accepted. Tonight she would finally get some and it was about time. Elaine never admitted this to anyone but she was still a virgin. It wasn’t that she was saving herself for the right man. She just never dated. Marc opened the. We were going through the old records and figured you were a professor at another school in 1913 who had a white lover here, and then a white woman lover, and we were seeing…”It sounded silly when we tried to explain it without the beguilement of make-believe and the long tradition of ghost stories bedeviling our faculties, but Olivie simply smiled and said, “Seeing the living past.”“Yes.”“So how did you find me?”“Sheer accident,” I said. “It was complete accident I saw you in the. He didn't bat an eyelid. He just looked at me and said, "Don't worry Sis, I have them safe and sound. You noticed they weren't in the laundry basket then?" Yea, I noticed," I replied."No point in washing relatively clean panties, is there? When I have used them to their full potential, I'll put them in the laundry basket for you."I smiled knowing exactly what he meant.The doorbell rang at exactly 8 o'clock. I answered it, paid the delivery boy from the money Daddy had left. By nine o'clock the.