" She was still smiling and she looked like she was actually having fun making me squirm."That smile looks good on you," I offered as I began to feel ... tiny bit more confident."I'm not always in work-mode, you know," she shot back."Is it just work-mode that makes you so serious?" I said with genuine curiosity.That seemed to stop her for a moment and she had a thoughtful look on her face."Is that what you see ... that I'm always serious?" Well ... I do remember you having a good laugh at my. I want him to live here in our boardinghouse. Judge Parker will be here in May, that’s still five months away.”When they returned to the boardinghouse, Eli was proud of his sister Rose. She had taken charge of the place already, assigning rooms and sleeping arrangements to all of them. She had looked over all the rooms upstairs above the kitchen, and decided that Duncan and Juni Moon would sleep in one room. The other rooms were huge and already had two big beds.The biggest room would be Eli. In all but location, the study room was practically identical to the one Alan had a short distance north of hers. The kettle was filled, and she prepared two, new mugs. Alan took off his jacket and hung it over the back of the easy chair he sat in."Do you know many other people here yet, Stella?" Well I think there's a couple of other girls here doing Literature, so we'll probably be in lectures together; and maybe the same seminar and tutorial groups. How about you: are there any more. This was my first lock picking assignment on an actual case, so I was nervous, clumsy, and slow. It must have taken me seven or eight minutes to get the door unlocked, but I finally made it. Fortunately, I was not interrupted while I was working, or I don't know how long it would have taken.I eased the door open, and we slipped inside. To our surprise, we could hear laughter coming from one of the bedrooms. The door had been left open, so we had no trouble identifying the laughter as being both.