| Synopsis: |
In six days, Silas Mudd will celebrate his one-hundredth birthday. He is in alarmingly good health, and there is no doubt that Silas's son and his two daughters will be at the party. Best outfits and good form are what they think Silas wants served up and they dare not disappoint him. Meanwhile, though grumpily flattered by the fuss, Silas's greater pleasure is to go over his life - and the women he has loved. But they've all gone now, and Silas is the only one left who knows exactly what is shoring up his family. So he sits and wonders what it would be like if he were to tell... |