Eccles' little wife is in discount ugg boots her big kitchen, wearing khaki shorts this time and sandals and painted toenails. "How did you sleep?" she asks from behind the refrigerator door.
     "Like death. Not a dream or anything."
     "It's the effect of a clear conscience," she says, and puts a glass of orange juice on the table with a smart click. He imagines that seeing how he's dressed, with just the T?shirt over his chest, makes her look away ugg boots discount outlet quickly.
     "Hey don't go to any bother. I'll get something in Brewer."
     "I won't give you eggs or anything. Do you like Cheerios?"
     "Love 'em."
     "All right."
     The orange juice burns away some of the fuzz in his mouth. He watches the backs of her legs; the white tendons behind her knees jump as she assembles things at the counter. "How's Freud?" he asks her. He knows this could be discount uggs for women bad, because if he brings back that afternoon he'll bring back how he nicked her fanny; but he has this ridiculous feeling with Mrs. Eccles, that he's in charge and can't make mistakes.
     She turns with her tongue against her side teeth, making her mouth lopsided and thoughtful, and looks at him levelly. He smiles; her expression is that of a high?school tootsie who wants to ugg boots discount uk seem to know more than she's telling. "He's the same. Do you want milk or cream on the Cheerios?"
     "Milk. Cream is too sticky. Where is everybody?"
     "Jack's at the church, probably playing ping?pong with one of his delinquent boys. Joyce and Bonnie are asleep, Heaven knows why. They kept wanting to look at the naughty man in the guest room all morning. It took real love discount ugg boots to keep them out."
     "Who told them I was a naughty man?"
     "Jack did. He said to them at breakfast, `I brought home a naughty man last night who's going to stop being naughty.' The children have names for all of Jack's problems ? you're the Naughty Man; Mr. Carson, an alcoholic, is the Silly Man; Mrs. MacMillan is the Woman Who Calls Up in the Night. cheap uggs online Then there's the Droopsy Lady, Mr. Hearing?Aid, Mrs. Side?Door, and Happy Beans. Happy Beans is just about the least happy man you ever wanted to see, but once he brought the children some of those celluloid capsules with a weight in them, so they jiggle around. Ever since that he's Happy Beans."