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to the bathroom scales caught her mother's attention. She looked into Con's room and saw small piles of
clothing spread over her bed next to a duffel bag.

"Con, what's going on?"

"Nothing, Mom." Con put the stack of underwear she was about to weigh down on the bed.

"It looks like you're going somewhere."

"I'm just sorting through my things."

"I don't believe you. You're up to something."

"Daddy said that I couldn't tell anyone. I had to promise in writing that I wouldn't."

The suspicion on her mother's face changed to alarm. "Not even me? What are you two up to?"

"It's just a trip, a little vacation."

'To where? For how long? Why the secrecy?"

Con sighed. "It's nothing to worry about, Mom. I'll be gone less than a day. If you hadn't caught me,
you'd have never missed me."

Con's mother looked dubious. "That's a lot more than one day's worth of clothes." She picked up a
sleeveless top from off the bed. "It looks like you're going someplace warm."

"It's some new hush-hush technology. We all had to prom-ise to keep it secret, even Daddy. It's like an
instant vacation. I'll be gone only seconds, literally. I wasn't even supposed to tell you this much."

"That's nonsense. Don't lie to me."

"I'm not," said Con. "I know it sounds crazy. I have a hard time believing it myself. Look, if it's going to
be a hassle, I'll just stay here. This was all Daddy's idea."

"Then you should go," said Mother.

"But I thought..."

"It's important to maintain good relations with your father. You're his only child. You should be his heir."

"Don't start, Mom."
"He owes you that! Besides, I only want what's best for you."

"I don't care about being an heiress, I just want to be myself," said Con.

"And you will be. But to the world, you'll always be John Greighton's daughter. You can't escape that, so
you might as well benefit from it. It won't compromise you to accept your due."

"I don't need anything."