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“Only because I haven’t gotten down there yet,” IArchie away fro back in the day With houses like this one, they probably needed to keep in to trip down the stairs two at a ti I’, but the statue!

“I slid down the stairs on a tray,” he answers as though this fact were completely obvious Andtray a few feet away from him Probably real silver Almost certainly an antique

“Oh, my Lord, have you had Pop-Tarts for breakfast? The amphetamines of the breakfast world?”

“We’re not allowed Pop-Tarts,” Hugh answers, his tone more than a little awed “They’re not healthy”

“And careening down a staircase with your butt strapped to a kitchen tray is?”

“It wasn’t strapped I just sat on it Do you think that would help next time?”

“Next time? Friend, do you need your head rattled?”

“Nope I think I already did that thisit between his hands

“Why?” I fall to my knees in front of him Why now? Why with e at this hour, but I aht not have a husband, but I knohat betrayal feels like In the three weeks that I’ve been here, I’ve seen firsthand the effects of her husband’s infidelity She was sli of bones I know she’s hurting, and I hate that I knohat it takes to co the buck on this one Let the woman cry and blame her contact lenses

“I did it because Uncle Sandy said it was fun He said he did it lots when he was a boy I’ve been dying to give it a try because our stairs at ho as these”