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"I don't drink," she protested vaguely

"Consider it medicinal Just take a few sips"

She , but her face twisted into a sour expression as the whiskey, smooth as summer's kiss to a connoisseur, inflaasped a few breaths of air, she looked into his sensitive green eyes and sensed his compassion

"My name is Deirdre Dorsett," she whispered nervously

"Go on," he proers?"

She shook her head "An entertainer I sing and play the piano in the lounge"

"That was you playing `Sweet Lorraine'"'

"Call it a reaction fro it would be my turn next I can't believe I'm still alive"

"Where were you when the tragedy occurred?"

She peered at the four couples lying nearby in morbid fascination "The lady in the red dress and the silverhairedtheir fiftieth anniversary with friends who accoht before their private party, the kitchen staff had carved a heart and cupid out of ice to sit in the ne punch While Fred, he's" She corrected herself, "He was the bartender, opened the chaht in a crystal bowl fro froe freezer"

"You were in the freezer?"

She nodded silently

"Do you recall if you latched the door behind your?"

"It swings closed automatically"

"You could lift and carry the ice carving by yourself?"