the other three had dinner brought in and they spent the evening catching up with each others lives . perhaps we can try again another time . `` what else has happened at the home while i was away today ? '' hopper car after car went past us , and i could just see the rounded loads of the filled cars . `` but the vampire turn is n't pretty , either , '' i offered . she worried for the old cook , who 'd watched over her and her brothers all their lives . 