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"I figured you ht leave early tomorrow and I wanted to talk to you in person, not on the phone," said Mrs Sloan's niece by way of explanation

"I still haven't ," answered Kathy standing up

They both walked to the door

"As I said before," spoke Geneva again "I' been left the royalties ofto do, since my aunt had no children of her own But there are two other nephews, my brother and cousin Roy, to whom she left money and this house respectively I truly believe she put e of her most precious possession, besides those on the island, which makes me feel I have the duty to soly and lovingly achieved"

"That, su up," she continued after a pause, "is why I a in your hotels is what Aunt Mary would want me to do"

"Your aunt would want your life to be made easier, insofar as it were possible, thanks to that income, of that I'm sure"

"Well, yes But both ideas aren't incompatible"

Kathy s her own duty to be conspiring against Jesse and her

When she opened the door of her guest roo in my room either Co "We?"

She chose an outfit for the following ain into the corridor Suddenly she recalled her years at the university hall of residence, when theready to sleep filled the late part of the evenings At that hour, there was always so okay downstairs?" It was Jesse, opening up before she had the chance to knock The dog looked at her and barked twice "Behave, Mac! You're gonna be roommates"

"Are we?" asked Kathy, not sure whether it was completely safe to enter the anied, Kathy thought, since the day they'd h the change was so clearly for the better, the aradual but swift fondness was yet to be ascertained