"I have something for you, Question," Zander said, "Those letters you told me to write. You don't have to read them, but could you hide them somewhere else? I'm afraid the wrong person will get hold of them. Like Oksana will come in here sometime I'm out of it, or Dr. Monica Quartermaine will look on that desk and read that letter."
"Sure," Quinn said. "Both those happenings would be pretty much of a pain in the neck."
He'd just put the letters in a stack, which she put in an envelope, took home and stuck in a drawer. She didn't read them, except the one on the top, which said, "Dear Nurse ? - Thank you; this was a good idea, now they're yours. Copyright, evidentiary value and everything. Sincerely, Zander Smith"
Kathleen Connor came to the hospital with Tim and Peter the next day. Alexis had gotten a hold of Zander's key and gone in to his room, but found he didn't have any bathrobes.
"But I found his US passport in his real name," Alexis told Quinn, "I was thoroughly amazed at first. But then I realized how valuable he would think that was."
Kathleen and the two boys had gone out and gotten Zander two robes. "Is it Christmas?" Zander asked.
Kathleen grinned. "I told them each to pick one color. Peter picked red for Russian, so Tim here decides to be original and pick green for Irish."
"I'll take the green one," Zander said, liking Kathleen right off the bat, since Joe Quinn obviously liked her a whole lot, and her bright twinkling eyes revealed that soul that would just up and take care of Pete like this just because he was there.
"These are both yours," she said, "but I agree, you could use the luck of the Irish first off."
"We watched Notre Dame play last night, Sander," Pete said. "The football team. They lost. That is a terrible thing, S-z-zander, and I'm glad you missed it."
Tim said: "That was a really bad play in the third quarter." He continued describing and severely criticizing this play to Peter. Kathleen's eyes were crinkled up in a laughing smile. "It's a good thing you were spared, that," she told Zander.
A few days later, Zander was walking down the hall in the green robe when Quinn came in. "Don't overdo that," Terri Hayes was telling him. "I know you like your new freedom. Just take it easy." She told Quinn that Dr. Monica Quartermaine wanted him to do a stress EKG, since he could walk now.
