Once we were done we ordered a large Italian sub that we could split for dinner.Once back at the house I told Scarlett that I would need her help. I ...ad rented two cabanas so our guests could change their clothes. I needed to drag them toward the pool. Normally I would just pick them up and carry them. They were only light canvas on a PVC frame, but I doubted that I could do that with the throbbing pain in my side. Once they were fairly close we carried the interlocking vinyl panels there. "All that remains to be done is for you to tell John that you agree for him to adopt you and for your mother to give her consent. Otherwise, everyone has signed off and it will become official in a month or six weeks."I didn't dare take my shot, not in my condition, shaking as I was. I walked around, stared at the green, surveyed the distance to the sand trap and looked behind us to see if other golfers were waiting for me to do something. "What do I have to do?" I asked, hoping Suzanne would. There were fewer pale trees, the vegetation beneath their boots giving way to reeds and what looked like colorful lilies that thrived in the shallow water. There seemed to be no hard boundaries here, no shores, just a spectrum of mud and water and everything in-between. The going was no easier, the damp earth sucked their feet deeper with every step, and Sleethe had taken to swimming through the water to their left with a surprising grace. It was just deep enough that he could power through the. I like her, and we have a lot in common.In fact I would go so far as to say that she understands me."Mother leapt in:"She? - Understands? - YOU? Huh! does she indeed! Then she must besomething very special, if she can do that!"That was Mother all over! Never able to resist any opportunity to stickher knife into me, and then give it a few twists for good measure. Irefused to rise to her taunt, because that was just what she would havewanted. I merely waited; knowing that there was more to.