Chapter Thirteen
Sometime during the night, Jeff and Sue slipped out of the house. Both the booze and the passion had gone out of their systems, taking with it the bravado of letting themselves get caught by Maria. Suddenly, it did not seem like such a good idea.
Jeff, of course, had no idea that Maria had observed them in his bedroom. When he returned from taking Sue home, he went directly to his room and went to bed. He had heard nothing from Maria's room. He was exhausted, and fell into a deep sleep almost immediately.
The first word he had from Sue was when he called her Sunday morning. Maria was not home, nor had she come home yet. Sue told him that Arthur had not come home, either.
"Are you sure you still want to go through with it?" Sue asked.
"Of course," he replied. "
