CONSIDERATE
           PART 5

Partly shielded from the rain by the little overhang above the door.  Jason

took off his dripping hat and urgently explained his plight.  "My car, won't

go, wires wet, I guess.  I wonder if you'd let me use your phone?  I might

be able to get somebody to come out from Abby Falls.  I'm sorry that I had to--." 

 "That's all right," the man said. "Come inside.  When you knocked at the door, 

you startled us.  We--we really hadn't--well, you know how it is, in the middle 

of the night and all, but, come in."

"We'll have to think this out differently, John," the woman said.  Think

what out differently? thought Jason absently.  Oddly, Jason sensed that in

the half darkness the man and woman had smiled at each other, as though they

shared some secret that made any conception of physical danger to themselves mildly

amusing.  "We weren't thinking of you in that way," the man reasurred Jason.  "Come

into the living room."  The living room was just ordinary, nothing elaborate.

  1) COULD JASON HIMSELF BE IN SOME SORT OF PHYSICAL DANGER?

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