That was another thing your mother told me she wanted me to do when she spoke to me about dying the day before she plunged off that tower. She thought...you should know who your father was—and even why she hasn’t told you all of these years.’ ‘I know what the speculation is,’ Ally said. ‘The speculation is wrong. You think it’s the conductor, August Donáti, don’t you?’ Ally’s expression revealed that she did. ‘So did a lot of other people, even though Donáti was sixty at the time. But he was in. Again, while she sat at his feet, he continued to teach her new English words while she taught him more of her language.Destand was finally finished below decks and he climbed out of the hold. Standing on deck he was amazed the natives had covered all the deck areas topside with various goods brought up from below decks. These were goods that the two sailors felt they could use back in the villages. As they surveyed the goods stacked before them both men felt surprised that the pirates had left. Everything she had done since that night in the hotel had been the result of being watched. True, she had put herself in situations where she would be watched, but so what? But suddenly she didn't want to be watched.She slipped out of bed and closed the bedroom door behind her so the kids wouldn't see grandpa in mommy's bed and then she went to get them up. While the kids were eating breakfast she called Hank and told him she was running way late and wouldn't be able to car pool. It was a fib. She gradually leant over and looked in.The first thing she saw was the pain and desperation on her daughter's face. She was wringing her hands and shuffling as she watched - impotently - her boy and best friend kiss each other with no holds barred. Joe was cupping and massaging her ample breasts. Indira took off his cap and threw it on the bed, not once unlocking her lips from his.Spellbound by the sight, Kay watched as the Indian girl's hand slid down and stroked Joe through his trousers..