Chapter 15
To the casual observer looking at the brick house in the center of town, seeing the snow on the roof, the white swing on the porch, the Christmas decorations on the front lawn, the rainbow lights in the window, there was no evidence that a different kind of family lived there. The wife was a dentist who kept her office open at night to handle afterhours emergencies. The husband was a high school science teacher. They were a nice young couple, friendly with their neighbors, and they seemed very much in love. No one suspected that the wife was a nonhuman married to a human husband, and they probably wouldn’t have believed it if someone had told them, even someone like Kenneth Hempel who wrote for their local paper. Jocelyn Endecott, not human? She might be a bit pale, but flesh-c
