Chat up Betty (TRUTH). Miss. Brenda interrupts Betty's story.

You join Dot and Anna at the grill as they chat with Betty. When Dot's giggling fountain of questions ebbs, you see a chance to step in.

"Do you come up and help at Brenda's regularly?" you ask Betty.

Betty laughs. "No, just once in a while. I cook for La Crême in town, but this is more like the way I used to cook for the band bus."

"The band bus? You cooked for a traveling band?" you say. "Tell us about it."

Betty tells you some of the stories of how she ran away from home in her teens and connected with a traveling band that used to tour around in an old school bus that used to do hippie camping tours, so it was already set up for sleeping and cooking.

You've heard of the band. They're still traveling around, though a step up from a hippie camping bus.

"So what made you leave?"

"Well, that's a long story, and more than a little personal," Betty says. She laughs. "But it has something to do with why I'm here tonight."

"Oooh, tell," Dot says.

As Betty cleans up the grill and puts things away, she slowly tells her story. Just when it seems Betty is going to get to the interesting part, you hear Brenda coming back from the house. She's changed from her designer dress and wedges into a wrap-around robe and flip-flops. Brenda walks up to Betty and gives her a kiss on the cheek.

"Thank you so much for helping again, Betty, you're an angel," Brenda says. "We'll have to have you over when it's less busy."

Betty smiles. "Your little girl is adorable. I hope she's less of a handful than I was. Am."

"You're an angel," Brenda insists. "Are you staying over?"

"Depends on if Dad's got Tommy drinking," Betty says. "I still don't have my license back."

"I'll make sure you get home safe if you want," Brenda says. "Or you can crash with the nanny."

Betty nods. "I'll be all right, don't worry. You have enough to handle, if this is anything like last time."

Brenda laughs. "These girls are complete angels," she says. "But last time was fun. I'm really glad you could come up and help."

"Thank you for asking. Every little bit helps. And Dad was a lot better this time," Betty tells Brenda. "Nice talking with you," she tells you and Dot. Betty turns round and heads back out to the main house.

Dad? Betty is Tom Box's daughter? Was Tommy his son? And Brenda is trying to get them back together?

"Are you enjoying yourself, Gloria?" Brenda asks you.

You make a smile appear on your face. Party. Yes, this is a party. "Yes. Betty was just telling us her adventures cooking for a traveling band. She's had an eventful life for a young woman, no older than our nurse trainees."

"I never thought of it that way, but you're right," Brenda says. "Time to get the welcome party really started," she says. "I hope you're game."

"Oh?" you say.

Brenda waves her arms. "All right, now," she says, calling for the attention of Dot, Anna, Kelly, Jennifer, Olivia and Margarita.