Wakefield looked up from the blueprint that was spread out before her on the coffee table. She smiled, hooking a stray strand of honey-blond hair behind one ear."I haven't seen him," she said. "How did it go at the hospital today?""Fine," Elizabeth said."No comment," said Jessica, and acting as if she were hypnotized, she drifted upstairs. She'd been in a kind of trance ever since they had left the hospital, only coming out of it long enoughon the way home to tell Elizabeth the incredible news about Jeremy."What's the matter with your sister?" Mrs. Wakefield asked. "Did something happen at the hospital?""You could say that." Elizabeth confessed to her mother the trick she and Jeremy Frank had played on Jessica.Her mother laughed, her eyes twinkling with amusement. "Poor Jess! Well, she's probably gotten a real lesson out of all this, though I'm not sure what the lesson is. Honestly, the things you girls come up with! One thing about having twins--it never gets boring!""With Jessica, Life could never get boring," Elizabeth agreed.She was hoping Steven would show up for dinner so she'd have a chance to talk with him alone, but he didn't arrive until the family was sitting down to eat.
