" Miss Stevens ended enigmatically."What obvious?" I asked, my brow furrowed once more."All in good time, Josh," Miss Stevens said dismissively. "Now,...I?mafraid we?ve overrun our time for today so I?ll have to let you getback to... solitary, wasn?t it? However, for your homework I wouldlike-" Homework?!" I gaped."...for your homework I would like you to do a little bit ofexploration on two more colours ? ?White? and ?Black?. I want you tothink about what those colours make you feel, what. The morning after our late-hour arrival in Chapel Hill, we all met over a bountiful breakfast at Henderson Manor. (The Henderson family members don't really call their house 'Henderson Manor." That's just me, talking. I guess I'd seen too many Batman movies at an impressionable age.) The homecoming reception we were receiving -- myself included -- was far warmer than the first time I had visited this house. Tess' father (and, to a lesser extent, her brother, Roy, Jr.) had been suspicious of me. When the woman swung a back pack off from her shoulder and pulled out a laptop computer Tara went into the room next to the swing. The window that looked onto the porch from this room was open a bit as the weather was not so hot as to make it uncomfortable. Also the only cooling the house had was a swamp cooler which needed at least some of the windows to be open at least a bit."Are you really going to sit there and wait for my parents?" Tara asked."If you don't come out and talk to me or let. You already said she like to wear lace-type clothes, and pearls."Jesse understood, now, how much of a fantasy that was, "At least she wasn't a 'June Cleaver', trying to do housework in high heels." And Jesse'd been wearing only wedgies. {One foot free, she used that to take off the other shoe.}That understood, the father told her, "But you're not going around barefoot. We haven't done that in this house before, and we're not going to do it now. We got you a pair with low heels for when you.