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For several minutes, he watched her industrious attention to the assignment from the kitchen window and realized that he’d really hit on a plan. What was a chaotic mess to him was the Garden of Eden to her. He left her to her work, confident that she could spend hours there happily engaged and out of his hair. Returning to his office he sat back and sighed knowing that there were no furtive eyes staring at him through cracks in the door. He’d not felt this peaceful since she entered his house. Alice arrived just after noon, coming up the drive with two stuffed shopping bags—she always rode the bus or took the Metro. He noted her arrival from his office window as he was speaking on the phone and continued with the conversation. However the usual series of noises he expected to hear coming