GK4 called to talk to me about romantic woes, the opera he saw last night (a sup-par sub Tristan) and folly.

"My dad was called back down to Maryland for an emergency architectural meeting about the spire on the pagoda," he explained.

It seems that since I exited the K scene (stage left) his father has added a croquet lawn, a pool, and the forementioned pagoda. The spire in question is forty feet high and is adorned with 36 bells.