It had to be a hallucination, or maybe a moment of serious confusion brought on by the recent stress in Jim"s life. This was the only reasonable explanation. Of course Ekaterina"s home didn"t suddenly vanish! Since December Jim had been visiting her on a daily basis. He saw it with his own, two eyes. He had been inside of the cottage time and time again. But the momentary incident of hallucination that afternoon had disturbed Jim. He sat down at the dinner table that Monday evening with the intention of working the conversation in the direction of April"s orchestra teacher.
But before anything could be said, Kimberly seized control of dinner talk. “So did you go to the doctor this afternoon?”
“Yes.”
“What did he say?”
“Well, he said I"m losing weight and that my blood pressure is under
