"Good idea." I think--" My voice still sounded high and feminine. I cleared mythroat. "I think so," I finished."By the way, Mr. Clark," Kaye persisted... despite my rebuff. "I saidThanks back there and I meant it. I was starting to think no one wasever going to come looking for me. What a relief to be out of thatdump!" Really?" I wondered briefly if she was trying to set me up for somekind of story about being forced into the formula theft. Then she wenton and I stopped wondering."Really!" she. Our son wants to go see Sally. I will notallow it." I can see Sally if I want. She is my cousin, and I want to get to knowher better." She is just like my sister, and trust me, you do not want to know eitherof them. You will not like them." No, Dad, you do not like them. I do not know them, but want to." Why is it a fight to get you to do the right thing all the time, James?" This is a fight about me doing what you want. I am my own man, and can befriends with who I want." Not while you live. Fifteen minutes later the duo were settled in his office wondering what had caused the need for an urgent meeting. Ed had been John’s partner since the inception of the Emerson Management Consulting Firm, established more than 20 years back. Ed was a “rainmaker”, a natural born charmer and salesman. He was also in charge of customer relations for Enterprise Services, a wholly owned, but quite separate, subsidiary. Joan Thompson, among her other duties, was in charge of recruitment and. Yeah, the supposedly detached and impartial psychiatrist felt a lot of empathy for her patient, and decided for once that, rules be damned, she was going to show that empathy. Dr. Yasmin Hussein stepped away from her desk, and sat mere inches from her patient, and Adam Stanford looked at her, stunned by her sudden closeness. Smiling faintly, Dr. Yasmin took Adam’s hands in hers, and told him that any woman who left him was indeed foolish. Adam Stanford and Dr. Yasmin looked at each other.