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As they entered she saw that it was done in beautiful antiques, it had a huge foyer, with a large round antique table right in the e chandelier, on one side was a long antique bench, and on the other a large grandfather clock All of this was sitting on highly polished oak hardwood flooring; it was a very ie antique desk, where a worandmother sat, and he said, "hello Gerta, how are you she said, Starke welcome, welcome, and he said, this is Candee, and Gerta said welcos to your suite, if you'd like lunch, you're in ti roorandf ather clock it was eleven forty-five

That sounds wonderful, and he placed his hand at the small of her back as he directed her towards the door of the s room, which she saw immediately was not all that small, and equally as beautiful as what she had seen so far

They were taken to a table at a , looking out over a lush green lawn that seeo on forever, and when they were seated they saw that there were several people out there on the lawn playing a game of croquet

A waitress came to their table almost immediately, and asks what they would like to drink, Candee said, she'd like an ice tea and Starke said, he'd have the sa to a scroll of paper laying at each place setting"

They each picked up their rilled leht he'd have the chef salad, the waitress, Nancy according to her na? Candee replied, honey mustard? Nancy nodded, then she looked at Starke, he said thousand island? She nodded again and walked off

Candee then said, it seemed to me you and Gerta are on very familiar terms? He chuckled at the way she put that, and said, my mother and Gerta are old and dear friends, she is also athat is, and this place keeps her pretty busy Candee said, I can believe that, it is really a beautiful old mansion isn’t it? He said, "Yes, it is, you have a lotit all to you later"