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Kathy's eyes showed she wasn't convinced yet

"See it this way," he continued "She suspected she didn't have ht to the point And the point was, I now believe, that, knowing you and knowing ht there was a chance for us to be friends Only she had to arrange everything quickly, and aardly, due to her illness And she probably used the wrong words But don't you doubt that behind those words there was true friendship"

"I want to believe that, Jesse, but…"

"I know, I know And I want to be completely honest with you Take care of Kathy sounds condescending, and I took it as a favor she was asking fro See? "But I', just like you have She surely just wanted us toa bell

"Don't you think that's possible?" he went on "That in the haste of her circu up?"

"It is possible," answered Kathy after a while

"So we agree And you're not angry anyhly of her," she said with a hint of a smile

"So it's settled"

"Is that all the ht a o slowly

"No In fact, it is not

Eight years ago… No, I'll have to go further back

Myup with her boyfriend She was resentful, he'd gone away, so she never told hirandparents' house all our lives I wasn't told aboutfor ht years ago, she told me it had couess she thought I should know at least that All the curiosity I hadn't experienced duringso related to him - my mother didn't even have a picture -, so I travelled to the address ere told was his last, and…" He looked at Kathy wondering if she'd already guessed the denouement" It turned out he was Mrs Mary Anne Sloan's second husband"