Once in her car, Anna confessed to being glad to get out of the house. There was only so much she could take before naming everything for her guests made her want to reach for her gun. Although they learned English fast and expanded their vocabulary in a matter of hours, Anna could only tolerate so much before it got on her nerves. She still had difficulty accepting they were elves, even if their actions proved it more than their ears. It seemed they knew nothing of the modern world, from her clock radio to the contents of her refrigerator. By midnight, Anna gave up trying to explain everything using hand signals and turned on the TV, allowing six hundred television channels to do the teaching for her. Hey, it worked in Splash. After parking her car on the street facing the entry to

