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JESSE PHONED THE FOLLOWING MORNING KATHY HAD HER ANSWER ready She hadn't slept much, but she had finally decided to call Mr White first, and if Mrs Sloan's appointed executor confirmed what Jesse had told her she would travel with him
"So you don't think that he wants to sell the properties," had asked herwhen Kathy was restless, hadn't slept much either
It was hard to say, but Jesse had mentioned the word partners and would not probably have taken soso far to see her, if he didn't want to keep theave her the number A short while later, Kathy called back She feltwith Mr White that she had a good ht a plane on Monday and arrived in the city where Kathy had been with Mrs Sloan for teeks The late lady's family insisted they stayed with them in their sister's house, and, at first, they refused, but in the end, interpreting the gesture as a signal that the faood terms with them, they accepted Nevertheless, when Kathy found herself back in the same bedroom she'd left but a few days before, she felt she couldn't bear it
"What's the matter?" asked Jesse when he opened his door and found Kathy in the corridor
"This is wrong," she said "I shouldn't be here"
He stared at her like the day they'd
"We should have swopped bedrooms I don't feel too comfortable myself either So many memories to deal with, plus the responsibility of the inheritance and the uncertainty regarding the family's apparent welcome"
"I didn't expect you to understand so fast," said Kathy, glad but astonished Then she heard another door being opened so movement, she jumped into Jesse's room and onto Jesse's foot
"Co the door
"I' at her, sort of s, and Kathy felt eerous, for she had felt that ice in her life before and knehat it uish that arose every time she was presented with a new difficult situation It was so transparent She was so transparent It was a long time since Jesse had met someone like her Had he ever? Every minute spent with her made it clearer to him why Mrs Sloan had so swiftly felt attached to this concerned young woman