It would always be a quick pass by the window, with the pretense that I was grabbing a towel, or something before a shower or something. But it would ...ive a fairly unobstructed view of me from my knees up. I would then shut the light off and leave the room. Again, if she ever saw me, she never let on. When we’d talk later on, all would be very normal. Just talking about daily events, the weather, and such. So, one night after her husband left to go back to their other house. It was a couple of. I wondered if my neighbors would be interested in lunch. What better way to become more intimately acquainted. Sunday lunch. Or, if they were late sleepers, Sunday brunch, even. There was an IHOP nearby.All right, so some people sneer at IHOP. I'm not one of them, OK?I remembered both girls' full names, and tried the telephone directory. They were both in there -- with the usual feeble female attempt at avoiding calls from perverts:"S. Winthrop" was in there, and so was "M. A. Mathis". The. And looking right at me and shaking her head "No" just barely enough to nail my shoes to the floor. I hated her for being right. I loved her for comforting Hope.__________ Me: The next thing I remember clearly was looking up at Karen as she said, "Lisa's driving Hope home. She'll be able to function when she wakes up tomorrow morning. Don't get up, we need to talk for a few minutes before you go. For your sake." She went over to the loveseat where Hope had spent the. "What's going on with the invasion?" she demands when the nursearrives. "Have we beaten them off, or made contact with them?" Their land rovers turned around and went back to the ships," thenurse tells her, "two days ago, not long after you were admitted. Andsome of the ships have taken off and docked with the mother ship inorbit, but others are still sitting wherever they landed." How's Zach -- the guy who brought me in?" He's fine. He's been here to see you several times --we had toassign.