Then to the utter surprise of all present, including the Emir, she launched into a slightly amended version of Gilda's aria Caro Nome expressing her l...ve for the young man before her, who was in fact her Emir. As the beautiful soprano voice filled the throne room with the magic of Verdi's music, all of the audience were moved, and tears came into the Princess Zubeydeh's eyes.As the music faded away there was a spontaneous round of applause, and Lama moved gracefully over to the whipping bench. ‘My Mei Chun, I don’t know, honey. He didn’t leave you, baby, he left me. I got so tired of him, so sick of his excuses and his lies and laziness, I just made his life worse. It was a thousand things, honey, not you. It was the looks I would give him when he came home and the cold shoulder when he wanted love. He just didn’t deserve to be honored like the big man he thought he was. He tried to get everything without earning it. Trust me, Mei Chun, you had very little to do with it.’ That. That's short for doppelganger, Jeanne. Are you familiar with what that is?" "That's some kind of clone or duplicate, right Barocca? Only it's kind of creepy or not quite the same as the original?" "Very good, Jeanne. It's mainly found in ghost and suspense stories. It's the popular term for someone's ghost or spirit, that's seen roaming about in those old Gothic mansions, that's come back from the dead, or isn't resting in peace. "Dee Dee's been working on a way to try and produce temporary. It was something she wanted me to know to bring us closer.I always thought it would be Ned, who would divulge the Oldham family history, but he never did; it was Suzanne. She said she didn't know Marian very well, but Noland often came to the office and had even worked there for short periods of time. Ned was a frequent visitor to the Oldham home and the year Noland graduated from C.M.A. he brought Ned home with him to spend the summer. They tended to the park across the street from the Oldham.