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But this will be shortI have an old lady to look afterShe's sleeping now, but I don't like to leave her long Pam, curious in spite of herself: "What old lady?" "Her name's Elizabeth EastlakeShe's in her mideighties, and she's got a good start on Alzheimer'sHer principal caregiver is taking care of an electrical problem with someone's sauna, and I'm helping out "Did you want a gold star to paste on the Helping Others page of your workbook?" "No, I called to convince you I'm not crazy I had brought in my drawingNow I crooked the 378 handset between my shoulder and my ear so I could pick it up "Why do you care?" "Because you're convinced that all this started with Ilse, and it didn't "My God, you're unbelievable! If she chanel top called from Santa Fe and said she'd broken a shoelace, you'd fly out there to take her a new one!" "I also don't like you thinking that I'm down here going insane when I'm notare you listening?" Only silence from the other end, but silence was good enough "You're ten or maybe fifteen minutes out of the showerI think that because your hair is down on the back of your housecoatI guess you still don't like the hairdryer "How-" "I don't know howYou were sitting in a rocking chair when I calledYou must have gotten it since the divorceReading a book and eating a cookieA Grandma's oatmeal cookieThe sun's out now, and it's coming in the windowYou have a new television, the kind with a flat screenIt's sleeping under the TV Dead second hand chanel silence from her endOn my end the wind blew and the rain slapped the windowsI was about to ask her if she was there when she spoke again, in a dull voice that didn't sound like Pam at allI had thought she was done hurting my heart, but I was wrongIf you ever loved me - stop spying on me "Then stop blaming me," I said in a hoarse, notquite- breaking voiceSuddenly I remembered Ilse getting ready to go back to Brown, Ilse standing in the strong tropical sun outside the Delta terminal, looking up at me and saying, You deserve to get betterSometimes I wonder if you really believe that"What's happened to me isn't my faultThe accident wasn't my fault and neither is this She screamed, "Do you think I did?" I closed my eyes, gucci taske begging something, anything, to keep me from giving back anger for anger "Then leave me out of it! Stop calling me! Stop SCARING me!" 380 She hung upI stood holding the phone to my ear There was silence, then a loud clickIt was followed by that distinctive Duma Key warbling hum Today it sounded rather subaqueousMaybe because of the rainI hung the phone up and stood looking at the suit of armor"I think that went very well, Sir Lancelot," I said No reply, which was exactly what I deserved x I crossed the plant-lined main hall to the doorway of the China Parlor, looked in at Elizabeth, and saw she was sleeping in the same head-cocked positionHer snores, which had earlier struck me as pathetic in their naked antiquity, were white chanel watch ceramic now actually comforting; otherwise, it would have been too easy to imagine her sitting there dead with her neck brokenI wondered if I should wake her, and decided to let her sleepThen I glanced right, toward the wide main staircase, and thought of her saying Oh, you'll find it on the second floor landing Find what? 381 Probably it had been just another bit of gibberish, but I had nothing better to do, so I walked down the hall that would have been a dogtrot in a humbler house - the rain tapping the glass ceiling - and then climbed the wide staircaseI stopped five risers from the top, staring, then slowly climbed the rest of the wayThere was something, after all: an enormous black-and-white photograph in a frame of narrow banded chanel earrings