At her husband’s Flamingo’s there were too many eyes on the lookout, with plenty of creeps willing to tell Dutch anything and everything. So she b...gan sneaking off to Mongo’s. Nobody knew her and she could dance all night with a different partner each song and never have to face an angry Dutch in the morning. At first, Peter Schmidt had just been another faceless swing partner, but he was a determined man. He showed up more and more often, danced with her, bought her drinks, and occasionally. “Excuse me. There’s another birthday tradition that we need to get to now. Civia needs to open her presents,” he stated as he waved his hand vaguely in her direction.“What? Presents?”Because the two of us were sitting on the other bench at the same table, she turned to look at the two of us, and saw the wrapped packages.“This is already the best birthday ever! You didn’t have to get me presents.”“Nonetheless, young lady, start with the smallest one,” Jeff insisted.It was a small, flat box from. .. be it writing, gardening, working with cars, looking after horses, teaching, being a mum and a home-maker ... It doesn’t matter what ... The most important thing is, it MUST be something you sincerely love what you do ... Money becomes secondary and the universe always provides us with exactly what we need ... It’s hard to explain, but all I know is, it works... ! Does your husband like what he does... ?“Of course ... he eats dreams and sleeps it 24/7... !”“Exactly, and to him, nothing else. " He tossed a grainy photograph, obviously a blow up from a telephoto shot, across the desk. "Helen Stanhope, 43 and as far as we can tell the only person that has direct involvement with the Questors. She's there at any event where the Questors do appear and it's only ever her that's there from the company." OK, maybe some sort of in, there." Well maybe, but she's going to be difficult to get at. She's more of a geek than her team is. Home — work — home; lives in an apartment in an old mansion.