Cindy watched as he flipped through the magazine and saw him pull out a folded page. She thought it might be a men's magazine but she couldn't see anything but the back of it so she couldn't be sure. Maybe I could tell if I had binoculars, she thought, or better still, the telephoto lens on Rick's digital camera. She started downstairs to get it, then realized that she'd have to raise the blinds in order to use it. If she did that, Bobby would see that she was spying, right? She decided to find out whether she could get away with it.

After making sure that Bobby wasn't looking,...