He smiled. "How are you at dictation, Amanda?" he asked.* * *"You want the job, it's yours," he told me, "once I'm sure of yourfacility for dictation....I felt humiliated, disgusted, and furious, but I kept these emotions tomyself, careful to allow neither my facial expressions, my body language,nor my tone of voice to betray my true sentiments or attitude. "By allmeans, put me to the test, Mr. Howard," I said, my voice honeyed andlascivious, despite my utter disgust. "I think you'll agree that. Shilla told me to link my arms over the shoulders of the waiters and they did likewise with me. The tempo began to increase and we started to dance in a circle slowly bobbing up and down. Quicker and quicker we danced and I was really beginning to enjoy myself, shouting, “hoi!”at the appropriate times. The other diners were cheering even louder than the first time and seemed to be pointing in my direction. Shilla who was opposite me was grinning like a Cheshire cat. She. Normally I would have tried my best to look nice after such a long separation, but this was no normal day. My understated appearance was all part of my plan. If Jason noticed, he didn't seem to care at all. He swooped me up into a big hug and spun me around once before setting me down and kissing me soundly."I missed you so much," he said."I missed you, too," I said. "It was fun, but all I could think was that it would be more fun to be in NYC with you, you know?"He grinned. "We'll definitely. "I opened my mouth and closed it again. When we arrived, I had taken theseat closest to the wall in a vain attempt to be unobtrusive - or atleast out of the way of the crowd of students standing between thetables. Pushing through the mob to the bar, where customers werestanding three or four deep, was not what I had in mind. But Avanti hadalready made for the bathroom, and Caroline looked at me expectantly.Angus half stood up and I thought he was about to offer to go to the barin my place,.