Amy worried about the sounds coming from her father’s bathroom. They didn’t seem, well, natural. Daddy always joked about going into the bathroom “to do God’s work.â€? And now Amy wondered if he was perhaps communing with the Almighty. One does not usually hear doors rattling and breaking glass during the regular course of a morning constitutional. Amy tiptoed down the hall, deciding to pretend that she hadn’t heard a thing.

Frank made a mental note to tell the spirit of Amelia Earhart to schedule her “visitsâ€? a little more judiciously. How was he going to explain the broken mirror?