Mother was much harder to find. Oh, I saw her at breakfast and lunch, but she was always accompanied by father and the kids.
I couldn't talk to her in front of them. But she was avoiding me, sticking to the rest of the family even after I made several attempts to approach her.
But I wasn't so easy to scare away.
In the end, when I met her, smiling, outside the toilet, she sighed, looked up, and waved her hand.
"That's it, I give up," she said. "Let's go to that old coot's office, get some privacy. It wouldn't be good if the kids hear any of it."
Billie and Mikey (and Uncle Billie, too), were completely unaware of what was going on. They had no idea, although they noticed something was different.
Once we were sitting in Grandpa's office, having kicked him out (mother just pointed at t
