He promised to call with some proposed dates for the seminar, and then I headed back to the NIKA offices which were only a few blocks away.January 25,...1996, Chicago, Illinois“Steve, Dave has Eleanora Velt ready for you, OK to bring her up?”“Yes. Thanks, Kimmy.”Two minutes later, Dave brought in his candidate for the open development position he had. After slipping off her shoes and putting on the soft slippers I indicated, I led her into the office. She wasn’t comfortable with the Japanese. She’s also wearing jeans and is barefoot.She answers her ringing phone. We hear her side of the conversation.“Oh, hi.”“I’ve been thinking a lot about you, too, all day.”(long pause)“Listen, Diana. I’ll tell you the same thing I told Catalina. I’m sorry I got carried away last night. We had those drinks at the club, then we came back and had wine. And, well, it was a one-time thing.”(Another long pause. Inga is nervously unbuttoning and re-buttoning the bottom button on her blouse. with one. There hadbeen a lot less of it this time. On Tuesday Anthony took the afternoon offand we went down to Harley Street for an appointment at a surgery thatperformed cosmetic operations. There they were using the latest in digitalimaging for consultation, a process that had been used on the continent for acouple of years but was new here. For ten minutes I was photographed formevery conceivable angle, initially facially, but then Anthony suggested wholebody too. Then my face was shown on the. They also sent a clinical psychologist to talk to Frankie. They explained that sometimes people who suffered life-changing injuries can spiral into a deep depression, thinking that their very existence is a burden to their fam1ly and friends, and therapy helped. She also met privately with Janice and me, and stressed how important it was for us to impress upon him that nothing he needed was an inconvenience to us, and that he would be self-sufficient again once he healed. Frankie could walk,.