Then she heard a creak halfway down the stairs and she nearly dropped the snuffer again. John must be making his way down the stairs to find her, she ...hought. Her heart pounded and she looked about frantically in the darkness for some place to conceal herself. Strangely, time seemed to slow down and she felt herself thinking very clearly. The thought occurred to her that she knew this house far better than John did, so it was very likely she could find a few places that hewould never think to. As we were speaking one of them asked then you are wearing no bra and panty for which my mom blushed and said “yes, I am wearing”. Every body was drunk and was speaking boldly.One of them said to my Dad “look your wife is lying to us”. He said “no sir, she is wearing bra and panty.” Other said "we don’t believe”. Now my mom lost it completely and in front of everybody she put her pallu down and unhooked her blouse and showed her bra to all and said "look at my black bra sir”. Dad’s senior boss. Studying Eamon, it was clear the poison had taken its toll on him, but there was raw intelligence behind his eyes, and I could tell he would remember every word spoken. He'd obviously been warned about our eclectic group – he didn't even blink when a golem and a Qunari were introduced.His voice was slightly hoarse from disuse, and he stated that he'd heard Teagan's version of events, but wanted to hear ours. Theron, Tomas, and Aedan all started talking at once, to everyone's amusement, and I. I'm going to go over and see how they're coming with the sewer inspection. That'll get me out of here for a while, anyway." He was gone before Marjorie could protest.It wasn't as if he hadn't expected it, but it was still pretty frantic on the phone after about 11. The calls before then had mostly come as a result of the rumor mill, but as soon as the Record-Herald came out, it got bad.The last phone call was the worst. Don had expected to be cussed out a bit, but Binky Augsberg had lit into.