She had seemed unusually jolly and had helped tidy the place considerably. Lori was grateful for her help too, but couldn't hide a bit of distress at ...hat she termed as "mother's meticulous fussing."There had been no repeat performance of the strange incident three weeks prior. There was only one occasion during the first of mother's two visits where I had felt slight alarm. She had been tidying up our bedroom and had been transferring Lori's underwear into a small drawer unit I had built that. The men parted when he neared and he walked into the room. He saw three of his largest soldiers struggling to hold back a woman. There was a pasty man sitting on the floor with blood running from a large gash below his eye.“What holds?” Joseph asked Morane, who seemed to be doing his best to calm everyone down – rather unsuccessfully, Joseph thought.“It seems there is a disagreement,” Morane said.“Yes, the woman who appears ready to kill the guards gave me that much,” Joseph said drolly. “Even. Roger had been allowed to sit when the men were in the back room and he rose when the man walked toward him. The man motioned for Roger to remain seated and the man sat down on the sofa next to him. Before he could speak a man came from the back room and walked to the sofa and whispered something in Chinese in the man's ear. The man stepped back and stood as if waiting for instructions on what to do next."Mr. Boring, I'm sorry for the way that we treated you right after the incident at the. “I could have him call you and come and get you, and show you the best four or five homes on the market – where are you staying?”“The Courtyard, on Oak Street, room 1105,” Olivia answered.“How early is too early for you?” I asked writing that down.“About Nine am,” Roger said with a snicker.“I’ll tell him when I see him later about the grandparents that I want to adopt me?” I snickered.Olivia put her hand on mine and said, “I sure hope that your father knows what a great son he has!” They got up.