"How could you not have explored your entire house yet?" The dinner party was Gretchen and Hutch's housewarming. They had bought the house sight unseen, and discovered it had been left full of the previous occupant's belongings, plus quite a few rats and an enormous wasp's nest in the carriage house. It had taken them three months just to make the bottom floors livable and Hutch, considering himself to be quite the handyman, was planning to gut and replace the ancient kitchen himself. In celebration of clearing their living room, dining room and twin front parlors, they invited over eight of their closest friends.
Gretchen shrugged her white shoulders in her sleeveless silk jumpsuit. "I don't know. We just haven't. Every room we opened, I've cried over. You've seen the pictures. Horrendous!"
"Yes, but Bennett's right," agreed Jessica. "I couldn't live in a place I didn't look over throoughly. I mean, what if there was treasure?"
"Or a body," added Marty a glint in his eye.
"Or more rats," said Hutch, opening another bottle of wine. "I, for one, would like to let sleeping rodents lie until I'm done with the work I have already on my to-do list."
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