He headed out of the house, popping the front door key in the pocket atthe front of his dress. He was a little nervous, but it wasn't far roundthe blo...k to the school entrance and as luck would have it he didn't seeanyone. He headed into the school gates and began to get his bearings inthe strange school. He figured that the main hall was straight on and thatSister Mary's office was somewhere behind it so he headed across theplayground in that direction.Sister Mary was a stickler for authority. “I saw you were wearing that ... kimono yesterday.”“You liked that?”“Yes, you seemed pretty in it. It made you stand out so much when I saw you.”“My mother ordered them. I will let her know that you liked it.”“So tell me about yourself, Fumi. Where do you come from?”Fumi brushed her long hair away from her ear. “I was born here. I was born near Los Angeles before moving here with my mother.”“Just your mom? What happened to your father?”“He...” she tried to reply to him. “He...”Gary could see. He began to get down off of the ladder, and Jennie quickly grabbed her bra and tee shirt from the floor and a clean pair of jeans and retreated, blushing furiously, to the sanctuary of the bathroom. ‘Oh, my!’ she said out loud. ‘I forgot Johnnie totally. He’s going to think that I did that on purpose. Damn, damn!’ She quickly dressed and went hurrying down stairs. Just as she got into the kitchen, Johnnie was knocking on the back door. She opened the door and he said, a grin on his face: ‘My,. .. if I ask something you don’t want to answer truthfully, you’ll refuse to answer at all...”“Yes.”“So ... I’ll roll the dice. Why this meeting? We could have boarded a jet within fifteen minutes of landing...”“You’re going to be in very intimate proximity to my granddaughter and her family. Meeting the Dominants of your House convinced me it’s highly unlikely you would be unsuitable, but best to make sure of such things.”“The Dominants of my House...” Galena said, a smile on her mouth that.