ago? How could you keep this a secret. Grace? Don't

you realize what you have done? Can you imagine the

gossip, the disgrace? We'll be the laughingstock of the

whole strip. They'll never stop talking about us now." "I'm sorry, Mommy."

"Why didn't you tell me?" she screamed. "I was afraid. I was afraid you would blame

me," I wailed.

"Blame you? But..." She looked at me in a

different way. "Those times, those many, many times

you were alone with him, out on the sailboat, out

there, or those trips you two would take, all of that,

did he do anything then? Did you let him. Grace?" she

asked.

I shook my head. "I don't think so. Mommy." "You don't think so? You don't think you let

him? What does that mean?"

"He said I always flirted with him, but I didn't. I

didn't mean to." I moaned.

She pulled her head back and looked at me

again, her eyes revealing a mixture of doubt and

belief,

"He would say that" she concluded. "He will

say that. Of course. He'll tell everyone you seduced

him and not vice versa, if we let this be known." She sank into her chair. thinking. "We can't get

anyone to give you an abortion this late without

chancing an even bigger scandal. What can we do?

What can we do?"

I sat across from her again, and she looked at

me for the longest time without speaking. I wiped

away my tears and waited,

"Who else knows about this, Grace? Have you

told Dr. Anderson, for example? Not that it should

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