Freelance writing is no way to make your fortune unless you'revery good or get very lucky. So far neither seemed likely. She had moved in a few months...later after Jenny, or was it Jackie hadmoved out. The big airy rooms and feeling of privacy amidst company hadshe said attracted her. Better than some sterile little apartmentsomewhere she said. She liked to be around people.Seemed she worked in the music business in management or promotions I wasnever quite sure. One thing I was sure of she was. "I saw you this morning." I know you did. I rode the bus with you, remember?" That's not what I mean." he said, panic striking his gorgeous eyes. "I meant I saw you, earlier on. At six o'clock about." I turned beet red. "You- did?" A huge lump formed in my throat. I envisioned it as me deep-throating him. Sweat was running down my forehead again. I took off my hat and rubbed my head. "You're saying... that you saw me, completely naked and wet?" That's right love," he said, a slow smile. What I don't understand, though, is why it didn't break when I climbed it. I'm no lightweight. Rummy's analysis makes sense, but, I'll bet it would have broken if I'd started off with the other foot." Can't say. Well, they may just be handing out warnings, but I doubt it. It's gone beyond that." They?" Helen looked at him quizzically as they settled the bill and left the restaurant. They began strolling along the Quai du Golfe, where the sun warmed their bodies."They," Sandy said emphatically.. The door wasn’t like the varnish-stained ones of the others. It was a biscuit brown, with such defined grain and a heavy, worn look like she knew from the stately homes she visited with her family. With a shiver of expectation she turned the brass handle, which was covered in the scratches of two hundred years or more of use. As she stepped forwards into the blackness beyond she fell. She was immediately plunged into nothingness. She yelped with fear and then found herself falling through a.