The rules were that they had to dotheir own make-up and everything. He got dressed in the new azure bluedress with the pink rhinestone trim then went ...o do his make-up. He wassurprised at how adept he had become in putting make-up on. He was ready to go right on time, and let Mary know that he was readyand that it was right on time. She asked where he got the dress and hetold her he didn't really know why he had bought it but it had seemed todraw him to it. She said she understood about that,. Susan was having some difficulty creating a diversion until Dan told Toby that he thought he'd just seen Dustin Pedroia, the Red Sox second baseman, in the main terminal corridor. Such a sighting was (barely) plausible, since the Sox were due in Baltimore for a three-game series beginning the next day.The four of them, Toby, Christy, Susan and Dan, went on a lengthy trip against the current of pedestrian traffic down the corridor, searching in vain for Pedroia.Alone back at the security. Enchanted stuffwas real until you no longer believed in it, and then it faded out fromreality, leaving the world all practical and gray. That's what hismommy had said, and she herself claimed to still believe in stuff likefairies and dolphins and unicorns; like the pewter ones and crystalones she had sitting on shelves and tabletops all over the house; orthat one that was this whole little tableau in colored glass- Alicestanding there amid the giant flowers, arguing with the caterpillar ashe. Does cordial mean what I think it means?"Sharon finally realised that she was no longer on the payroll of the U.S. government, and that she really did not want to know whatever this obnoxious man wanted."Now Mr. Ambassador, hear this message." I'm listening sweetie." Piss off," and she put the telephone down sideways on the desk, ignoring the spluttering that was still coming from the earpiece.'Let him rant, ' she thought.As she went back to her bedroom to pack, one of the junior aides gave her.