.. ?" Of course not!" His voice grew impatient. "We didn't dispose of them. You watch too many B movies! I simply meant that we had to terminate their...employment. They became, shall we say, too enamored of their work. They were wearing my poor boys out and overtraining is just as bad as no training at all. Aahhhh, but enough of that. Come in, come in."Jason pressed the palm of his right hand firmly against the metal plate of the door. From somewhere beyond, there came the familiar answering. ’ She looked up and saw a box of flowers. She said, ‘It cannot be. You have it wrong.’ ‘Read it yourself, Ma’am. It has your name.’ He held out the box and she took it. He backed out as fast as he could go and was gone. She put the box on the far edge of her desk and went back to work. At noon I left the office and stayed gone an hour. When I came back the flowers were in a vase on her table near the bansai tree. She looked up as I came in and said, ‘Did you send these flowers?’ ‘I don’t even. “In the blue album over there,” Stephanie said, and I saw there was an album with a blue cover on the other side of the coffee table. I leaned forward to reach for it, but at the same moment, Stephanie leaned forward as well, placing her left hand on my right thigh to brace herself. We had leaned forward together, neither of us realising the other was going to do the same thing, and our faces were close together, as we both reached for the album. I turned to face Stephanie, in that position and. She will work in Toronto for the next school year, so Mark can finishhis term down there, while you and I can stay up here." That sounds so cool. Is the bank in Terrace Bay a Royal Bank?" Alisonasked."I really don't know, and your mom wasn't sure. We are supposed to lookas we drive through in a few minutes. If it is, that would be a perfectlocation for her, nice and close. If not, she would have to considerswitching jobs, or going to another branch, if there is one withindriving distance.".