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"There aren't Besides this one, I mean, which was Mrs Sloan's room, for when she came to stay at the hotel She also had a private room at Patty's Bed & Breakfast"

This, Kathy remembered She'd had tea in Mrs Sloan's roouest there The Bed & Breakfast suite wasn't as ostentatious as the Pink Roses', so the thought that the placeto the lady hadn't for a moment crossed her mind

After the tour, they had the conversation; the one in which they would settle things and decide how their lives were going to be froh decisions Kathy had had to make in the last months - after their bedroom-carpet conversation - tried to simplify the options for her aspartners in business, which i the it to someone else was "out of the question" Of course, in this last arrangement, Kathy would have to hire her part to Jesse for some time until he collected the money necessary to buy it But he wouldn't mind if she didn't

"As I told you on the plane, I would rather you favored the first possibility, though," he pointed out

"When you said that selling it to someone else was out of the question, was it for sentimental reasons?"

"Yes"

"Does that include Mrs Sloan's family?"

"Not if they had been interested But they aren't Or at least they didn't say so"

"Geneva did"

"No Geneva wanted a s But," he continued after a small pause, "if it would ease your mind, we could ask her Just answer one question first: Is that what you really want?"