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"Have you contacted Cal Washburn yet?" herher deliberations

"Who?"

"The youngand Bachelor Auction last July You know, the fund-raiser for the aniled to tell her mother that she wasn’t interested in a blind date with a stranger Okay, so her brother loved his dog, who’d coe Cal and the Australian Shepherd Mack had naether But that didn’tto hit it off with this bachelor

"I really think Cal’s a fine young man," herto find a gentle way of getting out of this

"The least you can do is call hi on his horse ranch I never quite understood what Cal does, but he appears to be a trainer of some sort I don’t know that much about horses"

"I don’t either" The more Linnette heard, the less enthusiastic she beca around horses all day Great

Corrie frowned iht be pleasantly surprised"

Linnette had been avoiding this conversation "I did mention that the clinic hired Dr Chad Tiether while I was in school and, Moesture with her hand "What has that got to do with anything?"

"Dr Ti I want in a husband He’s seous Plus he’s kind and considerate He’s ured her chances of snagging him had risen substantially when he was hired to work at the medical center She’d nearly turned cartwheels down the street in her exciteht there, in Cedar Cove,

"In other words, you’ve set your sights on this doctor?"

Linnette grinned sheepishly "Nothing gets past my mother"

"Very funny What about Cal Washburn?"

Linnette was putting her foot down She wasn’tto this town so her parents could run her life--or her love life She’d had enough of that while she lived at home Her father had drilled every date un to take her to the Junior-Senior prouy once, but that’s it, Mo the amount of cash I paid for your date"

"Okay, okay, I said I’d do it" She’d postponed it as long as she could but, yes, eventually she’d get in touch with him

"You’ll call?" Corrie pressed

"Can I move into my apartment first?"

"It wouldn’t hurt to set the date now" Corrie dug around in her purse and found the envelope with Cal’s inforave you his phone number already"

"I lost it," Linnette muttered She had lost it, accidentally on purpose

"Yeah, right" Corrie was busy scribbling the nurind her teeth in frustration Her o "Think how useful it would be to have a doctor in the falared at her and handed over the phone number she’d written down "Just do it, okay? It’s only the one date and it’d "

"Okay, okay," Linnette runtled about the whole situation But then--as her ht be pleasantly surprised

"Proht away"

"Ah…"

"Linnette, how often do I ask anything of you?"

The old guilt trick, and it worked every tiuy as soon as possible"

"You’ll like hi her lower lip as if she wasn’t sure she should continue

"Only what?"