I wondered why I did that, but my conscience dictated my action. Afterwards I reasoned that anything else would seem that I was taking too much for gr...nted. Maybe I wasn't as Marilyn pulled a face when I told her where I was staying."You keep doing that, Dalzeil. I'm beginning to think you don't like me." Marilyn, that is far from the truth. If I stayed here I may not resist temptation too well." She had an impish expression as she said."My bedroom door does have a lock." She hung the statement. Then he sat down beside Ruth on the couch and they both sipped their coffees in silence. But the mayor-to-be's wife could feel the ex-mayor's eyes on her body and hear his slightly nervous breathing, and she knew well enough what was going to happen next."Does your husband know how lucky he is?" he finally said. "I mean having a little wife as pretty and sweet as you are, waiting at home for him?" He paused as Ruth turned to smile sweetly at him, then after a moment continued, "I envy him. I. .. but it seems so odd, considering they are both dead now. Let’s give her some privacy, why don’t we?”I heard a car pull up. It was Katherine and Ally. “Help us bring in everything please ... Michael what happened to your face,” Ally asked point blank.“Where have you been?” was the first thing Janice said.“We decided to leave the kids alone, and went shopping for ourselves ending up getting some groceries ... what’s with the attitude, Jan?”“I’m sorry ... Michael can explain it better than I. In the bedroom, there was a wig on a Styrofoam mold, and a long bed robe lying on top of the bed. Ted stripped off his clothes and threw them into a closet, then wiggled the robe over top of his head. Ted had trouble because he was much bigger than grandmother, but he eventually got the robe on, even though it only came down to his waist. Ted put the wig on, and climbed into bed.A few minutes later, Ted heard light footsteps come up the outside stairs and into the outer room. A familiar voice.