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I listened carefully as Dad told me all this, and I watched himclosely. Long before I watched from between the stairway balusters, crouchedthere like a little toad and frightened. I couldn't tellin the dark. Why's that? Nkata asked.

Rose? Theymust be. A partner, like someonethey've gone into the baby making business with. Libby, I'mnot right, I said. nd ofMajor James Bellamy and his wife having a set-to in an ancient episodeof Upstairs, Downstairs that was playing nearby on a VCR.