"Back in the motel I had to admit that I was pretty proud of myself. It was three in the afternoon, and a hell of a lot had happened in those five hou...s I had been at the station. We had pretty much solved the Jenny Austin murder and the father's as well. I wasn't ready to say he was Jenny's doer, but it was pretty sure one of the parents was. Since one was in the river and one was on the way back, it looked as if the the case was well in hand. I felt good about that regardless.Since I had. ‘But she got back at me right away. She asked how clean the house was and I said that it was clean. Then she asked, as her parents were going to spend the night there, was it Mom clean or Dad clean? Busted big time. All I’ve done in the past year was Dad level cleaning. I haven’t done a top to bottom cleaning since Charlene left after the divorce. I’ve spent the past three days working at it. When Marie walked in here for the first time earlier today, she gave me her seal of approval.’ Carl. Young Lydia was to save them for the blossom of her maidenhood and use the potion at an opportune moment. Assured the vials packed safely in a cushioned felts would advance Lydia’s purpose when she had come of age and at the time she so chose, she was told to administer a thimble-full to the goblet of an unsuspecting Noble and thereby change him into a heartsick and willing suitor. There would come a day, she was told, when time would portend nothing else would serve her purpose but this. And if he didn’t act the way she wanted, as Tommy learned last Wednesday, he’d learn, for she had plans for that too.In fact she had all types of new ideas that kept popping in her head, and like the good student she always had been, she started to jot them down for future reference. She even started to construct a rough timeline in which she wanted to accomplish them in.She wondered if Tommy had a clue what was in store for him. Maybe not, but she was sure, at least for now, he was a willing.