Summoning what little energy they had left, they broke into the next apartment. Part of the ceiling had crashed down in front of a bathroom door. The ...oor was open and a very overweight woman was shouting to them to get her out of there. She was holding a towel in front of her, but it barely covered her. Ed went into the bedroom and found some clothes. He returned and threw the clothes to the woman. Dressing seemed to calm her down tremendously. The two men studied the ceiling as it covered the. "The middle-aged woman smiled and went back to the laundry room, sorting and folding clothes from the dryer.Tom reached into the refrigerator and pulled out a large bottle of Pino Grigio that was already open. Taking two glasses from the cupboard above, he poured a glass for each of them, then motioned to her to step onto the back deck. Again, Connie led and Tom followed, sitting in chairs around the glass-topped table in the middle of the deck."She's not a busy-body, but I don't want her. Before she left, she gave Stan a peck on the cheek and wished him, "Have a happy Christmas, Stan!" Stan hugged her back and told her, "I don't know what I'd have done without you this year, Elizabeth. Thank you!" She smiled at him, waved, and was gone in a wisp of perfumed air.Stan wore his smart suit again. Anne wore a white sheath dress that finished six inches above the knee and dipped a long, long way down her back. "Nothing else!" she whispered to Stan. Denise had a tailored emerald green. ‘My roommate, Victoria’, that must have been the person he’d seen leaving the apartment earlier in the week he surmised, ‘will be home in about an hour or so. She’s a lawyer, and working hard to try to make partner in her firm, so you can never be sure when she’ll get home. We should have more than enough time to create a feast together. For all of us.’ ‘Whatever you say …’ He hesitated, and then said it for the first time. ‘ … Keri.’ Sam truly wasn’t being boastful about his prowess in the.