"No. I had to do the lemonade too, see, and we only had two pitchers. So sometimes I had to come out to the kitchen to fill those up."

"Did you see what your grandfather was eating or drinking?"

Arch thought. "I guess Fritz had some of the food, because he came over for a glass of wine. But I didn't see him eat. Later he wanted a cup of coffee. I don't think he likes lemonade."

"Fritz."

"That's what I call him," said Arch. "My grandfather."

"He's always called his grandparents by their first-" I started to explain.

Schulz held his hand up to me. "Did you see Fritz drink the wine?" asked Schulz. "Did you see what he did with his glass?"

"No," said Arch, "I didn't see either." "Before Fritz got sick, did he drink anything else?"

"Let's see," said Arch. "Okay, now I remember. We were out of lemonade and my mom was making some in the kitchen. A lot of people had been asking for it. Fritz was, let's see, he was talking to Trixie, the woman who teaches the exercise class, you know? And when she came over for coffee..." Arch paused to think. "No, wait a minute, she doesn't drink coffee. I remember now because she wanted lemonade. We didn't have any yet so she asked me if we had any herb tea."

Schulz drew his eyebrows together. He said, "Herb tea."

"Yes, she asked me if we had any herb tea. I said I didn't think so. Then Fritz came over and laughed and said Trixie thought coffee was bad for you. He was, like, laughing and saying Trixie thought a lot of things were bad for you. But he said he would have some anyway. Coffee. So I poured her some hot water and him some coffee. And then Trixie said, Well, could I check and see if Ms. Smiley kept any herb-tea in her kitchen. So I came in here to check."

Schulz leaned ever so slightly toward Arch. "Where was Fritz's coffee then? Did he take it from you and start drinking it?"

"No," said Arch slowly. "I put them both, the cups of coffee and hot water, next to each other on the table.

Then I came out here to look for the tea."

"The two cups were just sitting there?"

"Right," said Arch. "I thought I'd just be gone": minute, and they had started talking again."

"Did you find any tea?"

"No. I was looking and looking, and Mom was helping me."

Schulz said, "So your mother was in the kitchen then?"

"Yes," said Arch, "she was busy making lemonade. We looked for some tea. Finally she gave me some Postum instead. And then Patty Sue ran out of strawberries and I helped her with that for a while. And then I saw my mom emptying ashtrays and picking up dirty dishes... I guess I just forgot about the tea. Anyway, when I came back to the table somebody asked me again for lemonade."