.. in private?”Dr Wallis nodded and left the room, locking the door behind him. Hollis pulled up a chair and sat across the table from his wife. “...ow have you been?” Corinne asked him.“Good ... good,” Hollis replied.“And the shop?”“Keeping me busy. I’ve hired an assistant.”“Really?”“Yeah -- a high school kid. She’s a good worker. She’s made it her project to straighten up the dump ... arrange the merchandise for visual appeal. She puts in ten or fifteen hours a week.”“I’m glad she’s working. I’m not sure if she did it on purpose or not but the last time she stayed over the front of her robe came open and she wasn’t in any hurry to close it. My brother Tom claims it was no accident and that I should have taken that as an invitation. He claimed if she was willing to show she was prepared to have me feel them. Maybe, maybe not.Mom and Dad hit the sack early; I waited and waited, about midnight she finally went to the bathroom to get changed into her nightclothes reappearing in the. “This is good!” she happily declared, opening her mouth and losing half her food into her naked lap. “I usually don’t like cooked food. What is it?”“Sausage,” Frank replied. ‘Ground up, spicy pig meat. It’s delicious! Have another?’“Thank you. I will,” Beth replied to his unspoken invitation. She picked up another of the dainty morsels and bit it in half, still holding half of it in her hand. She intended to enjoy this one much more than the first one she’d eaten. ‘These are made to eat slowly;. I told you before we can stay here for months, maybe years now that we're hunting." Casey put his hand on Dixie's shoulder. "If you want to go back we will but I'd rather stay here for a while longer."Dixie put her arms around his waist and nodded in agreement.Coming back from a hunting trip carrying two pheasants, Casey stopped holding up his hand to Dixie who was following him. He signaled her to be quiet and to indicate that three people were on the front porch of the cabin. They stopped.