`` first , i 'm not the one who is married . i just wanted to go read a steamy romance novel and live in the fictional pages for a little while . they can live for twenty years . you worry too much , i say with a forced smile . `` should they get to the girls how would we feel , your mothers right their sitting ducks . '' they had arranged to meet outside a supermarket late the next afternoon , and grace had arrived more than an hour early so she could watch for anything suspicious . 