"I take myself too seriously, don't I?" she said, through the fits."Sometimes, Anne," Denise answered, then, more soberly, "But you are doing somethin... that needs you to be serious sometimes, you know."Anne ducked her head, acknowledging that point. "Actually, while I'm working on it I'll need to be serious all the time, Denise." That's all the more reason to blow off steam every once in a while, I guess!" came back the answer, but Anne stood and told her, "Not now, Denise. Now, I've got to get. The locket will work with anyone.”“Then explain to me, exactly, what the defenses of the locket are.”“Well, as we’ve discussed previously, the locket cannot be summon or located by magic. You have to find it consciously and mundanely. The locket can also make the wearer forget he or she is wearing it, which would be why she never told you about it. Also, to help keep the defenses powered, the locket will influence the wearer to engage in sex, upping the wearer’s sexual cravings if necessary.”“I. I have since learned that he was confined in the Chateau d'If, and I should like to learn some particulars of his death." What was his name?" The Abbe Faria." Oh, I recollect him perfectly," cried M. de Boville; "he was crazy." So they said." Oh, he was, decidedly." Very possibly; but what sort of madness was it?" He pretended to know of an immense treasure, and offered vast sums to the government if they would liberate him." Poor devil!--and he is dead?" Yes, sir, five or six months ago--last. The company would be much more likely to get rid ofme than one of those women. They were skilled, trained women, and I wasemployed to do menial tasks.I finished up in the ladies room and went into the men's room. I put upa sign keeping the men out as I cleaned it up. By the time I finished,Chris, one of my executives, was waiting at the door impatiently. As Iwalked towards the door, he blew past me and towards the urinal. Ismirked and walked out the door.I went down floor-by-floor and cleaned.