Stepped into an enormous, sumptuous office with a wide window overlooking the bank’s vast empire in Lower Manhattan. He walked toward a figure seate... at a desk with its back to him. “Have a seat,” a feminine voice said. It was a command. C.C. sat down and looked at the figure. Slowly it turned. It was a woman. Then she looked up. It was Marlee! “I trust you were apprised of the retrenchment of personnel in your division.” Marlee said. “I knew something was up,” C.C. looked smug and. "Don't be rude, Lizzy Lynn. She's new in town and don't have no baby in her yet. She'll be OK soon."This explanation only led Lizzy Lynn to ask incredulously why the "funny woman" did NOT have a baby in her. "Don't she have no daddy or brothers to give her babies like you do Mommy? Alice did not get to hear that answer as the inquisitive child Lynn was scooted off to the care of an aunt of maybe eleven, whose lemons had turned to grapefruit and whose tummy showed signs that she DID have a daddy. The family benefited from my dad's engineering experiencebut he was older than our mom. By the time 'Lenny' was starting upperschool the Gross Hill neighborhood had adjusted to the well earningblack families who had settled into the comfortable white enclave.Saying that Leyna was different from most kids growing up would beunderstating her early life. I knew she wasn't meant to be a boy but Icouldn't have expressed my thoughts. I was a loose cannon chasing everygirl I knew and wasn't very. He can’t believe she’d humiliate him in front of his son and strangers. What bothers him more is the implication she knows all about his little secret affairs. Finally he looks at Kyle and asks, “Are you ready to go?”“Give me one second,” Kyle replies. He goes to the telephone and contacts Mr Warden at the funeral home. He advises the man they’re leaving for the morgue while he makes sure of the directions. When he finishes Kyle walks to his bedroom and returns with the Colt forty-five plus two.