"I'd sure like to know what he's learned about the other people involved," Shelley said. "And I wonder who this new contractor is. Apparently it's a man. I wonder what he's going to think about all the women workers."

"You don't suppose he'll replace them, do you?"

"I wouldn't think he could. Most of them are probably under contract to Bitsy."

"But if the contracts were really with Sandra…?"

"Oh, dear. I hadn't thought of that. Our contract, though obviously devised by Sandra, was supposed to be with Bitsy. I'd assume the others were as well."

"Then he's stuck with the workers unless they bail out voluntarily."

"Some of them may," Shelley said. "But most of them seemed to be quite good at what they were doing."

"It's a shame we don't know more about most of them," Jane said. "After getting to know a bit about Evaline, it makes me wonder how and why

the others, like Jack and Henry, happened to get into what are traditionally men's jobs. And seem to be quite good at them. I bet they won't bail out. The work they're doing on the house will be a fine credit for them to get other jobs."

"You're probably right. Maybe we need to get to know them better when the work can go on," Shelley agreed.

"But not in front of Mel," Jane warned. "We'll have to see them away from work if the house is still crawling with police."

"Didn't we get a list of them?"

"I didn't," Jane said.

"I'm running home for my file. I'm sure in the wad of paperwork Bitsy gave me there's a list of the workers."

"Why would she give either of us that information?"

"For consultation purposes, I suppose. To see what they think about the feasibility of what we're shopping for. Like the wiring for the kitchen, say, or the necessary plumbing and dimensions of the bathrooms. I'm going to run home and see if I'm right about that list. I'm sure I didn't imagine it. I just wasn't especially interested when I spotted it."