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He ca a half-eaten sandwich “Hello, you two,” he said as he came inside “What happened?”

“Mo doallpaper and fell off a chair Her ankle is swelling up like a balloon,” Meredith said

Dr Burns nodded and set his sandwich down on the entryway table “Show me ”

But when they went into the living roo, as if this were just an ordinary afternoon instead of the day she’d tried to cook wallpaper and cut her own flesh

“Anya,” Ji to her “What happened here?”

Mo smiles Her blue eyes were co room and I fell Silly of me ”

“Redecorating? Why now?”

She shrugged “We women Who knows?”

“May I take a look at your ankle?”

“Certainly ”

He gently exae

“This pain is nothing,” she said

“And what about your hands?” he asked, exaertips “It looks like you cut yourself on purpose ”

“Nonsense I was redecorating I told you this ”

Dr Burns studied her face for a few ently “Come on Let Jeff and me help you to your room ”