If I was going to be up in the night, I figured more beer was a bad idea. Looking around that sterile room from my chair, I shook my head in wonder at...the situation I found myself in. When I woke up this morning, I was a carefree divorced college professor with the whole summer ahead of him. Now I was Nurse Johnson with some serious responsibilities. Go figure. Chris needed to take a second dose of her meds at midnight, so I had a second cup of tea and followed Harry Bosch around Los Angeles. "I have some suggestions that you already know, but just to reiterate, practically everyone has a camera on them these days, and many cell phones have a video function as well. If you see anyone taking video or pictures of you, don't call attention to yourself by quickly looking away or trying to get out of the scene in a hurry. I would suggest just turning and moving normally out of the scene as if you have a casual purpose in doing so. You're just one of the local ranchers who is probably. "Jane's on a date, and I'm kind of nervous being alone. Do you mind?"Duh.We sat on the couch, sipping coffee, snuggling after a bit. She reached up and gave me a little kiss. I was right in the middle of giving her a big one when Jane got home. We had just enough time to separate. She took one look at our flushed faces and her mussed hair and giggled. She went into her room, telling us it would be easier for us to 'talk', but the fact she was there made us behave. Did get a nice goodbye kiss,. . Geoff’s fiancée.”Helen’s eyes met Geoff’s. It was obvious that she was now relaxed, and those eyes reflected the slight smile that was on her lips.In bed that night, snuggled in Geoff’s arms, she thought about the experience. Her home, as a child, had been like the Billings’; quiet, relaxed, but purposeful. She thought her father would have liked George Billings, and Geoff, too, of course. Perhaps ... maybe ... But the languor following their restrained, quiet, love-making, the warmth and.