The Martins are good friends of the Wilsons. Each of these families are quite conservative from the Midwest and consist of the parents and a daughter with the latter having achieved physical maturity. These two young ladies, Carol and Melissa, have been inseparable since their age of 7 when the Wilsons move next to the Martins.

It was an early spring. The winter had been extraordinarily warm with few snow showers, and no blizzards.