"What time is it?" she had wondered. She felt rested even though the sunrise and the walk had interrupted her slumber."Almost eleven," Bryant had told...her.Jan had sat upright, quickly."You let me sleep for four hours?" she had asked."You looked peaceful," Bryant had said. "But now that you're awake, I'm off to the john."Jan had just watched as Bryant headed across the apartment. She had not felt him move the whole time she was sleeping. He had just sat there and let her rest.She wished she had. ” She gestured at Steph, who instantly blushed.Steph said, “I just observed how Lynn and Michelle were so tired by early afternoon tending to the children, and everyone is so busy. It just seemed that The Circle should hire a nanny or two. We shouldn’t be tiring our own grandmothers.” She looked back at Alice to pick up the thread.Before Alice could speak, several at the table were mumbling ‘Of course,’ ‘Duh,’ ‘How’d we miss this one,’ and so on.Alice said, “Sandy?” She gestured to her. " Do you think if I had been more aggressive about it with you back then, you might have responded? Cause I thought about it back then, and have been thinking a lot about it lately." I I don't know how to answer that, Ann. Like any married couple, we have had our issues, but overall, we are really happy. We have a great family, Jim helps out when he can, he's never strayed, and he is good to me. He's never pushed me to get a job; he supported me after the twins were born, and I said I wanted to. Dorothy chose the following Saturday to launch the campaign. She had the boys at the ready and waited by a window for Pam to emerge. The Mustang look clean and ready to go cruising. If Pam emerged before noon, odds were she'd have no place special to go and just wanted to find something to do. At ten fifteen, Pam emerged, dressed in typical school clothes - skirt and blouse, cruising clothes, no-place-special clothes, just something she threw on. Dorothy stepped out and called Pam over just as.