10.
Up the front steps, across the porch, Helen is banging on the front door. There are no lights on inside her house. No lights on the front porch. It is completely dark.
“Damn it, where is she?” She is afraid to wake the baby, but also afraid the babysitter has fallen asleep and she’ll be left to sit on the porch in the cold air until Allan comes back.
Speaking of Allan, where is he?
He’s been gone for a long time. It shouldn’t have taken him this long to go back to Paul and Sophie’s and get the car and drive home.
Maybe they invited him in for one more drink? Doubtful, but better than thinking he got mugged. But she didn’t get mugged. Surely he wouldn’t either. After all, he’s a big man in a black leather jacket. But he’s also the kind of man to provoke a mugging. He’d swagger and
