Chapter 222 Assholes(Living Up To The Name):>Ep2

• Compared to Mary (who really wasn't all that hard) getting to Elise was a piece of cake. About three weeks after my brother George married Elise, he had to go out of town on business. He asked me to look in on her from time to time to make sure she was all right and to do whatever I could for her if she needed help.
• The first day he was gone I called Elise and asked her to have dinner with me ("I know how lonely you must be this being your first separation, yadda, yadda, yadda) and she agreed. I took her to a place where they had good food and a dance band. I kept her wineglass full all through dinner and by the time we had finished eating she had quite a buzz on. She readily agreed when I asked her if she would like to stay awhile for some dancing and I ushered her to a table in a fairly dark corner of the club. Elise started drinking vodka tonics and every time she would get up to go to the ladies room I'd get her another double.
• There were a few other people there that we knew and I invited them over to join us, but by ten o'clock they had all left except for Gary and Frank. Also by then Elise was a very happy drunk. She was on the dance floor with Gary and I had just ordered her another double when Frank said to me: