You and Andie take my hands." I thoughtback, moving my arms behind me slowly."Miss Alice, might I have a word with you?" Arnold asked pleasantly."What...word could that be, Mr. Arnold? Delay," I accused?He looked surprised at my sudden change in accent."I don't want you to think badly of me at our first meeting, miss, butI am somewhat backed into a corner. What I must do shames me greatly." Not as greatly as what I must do to you, sir." I said as I started toconcentrate deeply.The world around. Her marriage to Harvey had ended almost exactly nine months before and she wanted George back in her life. But no one knew where he was, not even the local florist. They had all been phone orders. The flowers for the girls continued through their eighteenth birthdays. On those occasions the girls got eighteen pink roses. Martha began to get roses on her own birthdays after her marriage ended. They were signed ‘Your friend George.’ Martha was very irritated by the fact that George knew. “Libby!” she exclaimed, “What are you doing here?”“Watching you seduce my husband!” her friend laughed, “I just saw you two kiss and squeeze each other, so when are you both getting together to do the dirty deed, then?”“Oh, Lib, your hunk Henry was just giving a kiss on the cheek as old friends, there will be no getting together. He just doesn’t want to make love to me or, he made it perfectly clear, any other woman than you, Libs.”“No?” Libby’s euphoria evaporated, her shoulders slumped and. Wives welcomed their husbands gone these many months. Mothers clasped their sons, sisters their brothers. In the excitement few noticed that the ships carrying the warriors from Mykenae and Argos together scarcely numbered half those that had sailed so bravely from just one city only two years before. War, hard war, had cut down the prime of the Argolid, laying great lord and minor warrior in the dust side by side.In the next few days we traveled up country, visiting each of the kings and.