Chapter 452019—late May
The four men left the Jacuzzi and spent a few minutes in the pool to allow their bodies to cool. Then, showered, dressed, and refreshed from their swim, they headed back upstairs to the kitchen, where they found Lydia hard at work at the dining room table.
“Still at it, I see,” Philip said.
“Yeah,” she said. “The more I think about this whole situation, the more interesting it becomes. And, I might add, the more frustrating. I’m having a difficult time coming to a satisfactory conclusion.”
“Does a paper like yours have to draw a single conclusion?” Eric said.
“It would be nice,” she said, “but there’s no hard and fast rule to that effect.”
“Then why don’t you posit two or three possible conclusions, and let the reader make up his or her own mind about things?”
