Hannah looked Jessie over as he passed. She shivered under her bulky coat. He disappeared into the back. A few minutes later, Marie came around, opene... the office door and said "Jessie? Come on back."Marie did not take Jessie's blood pressure or weigh her; instead, she led Jessie right to an exam room. She opened the door, emblazoned "#3." "Please undress from the waist down; you'll find a gown on the counter. You can leave your shoes on," Marie added, with a slightly disapproving glance at. ." she returned herattention to the list."How much weight do you think I should loose?" she asked.John thought carefully and knew any answer was going to be bad so heresigned himself to just answering the questions as truthfully as he could."Twenty pounds."She wrote that on the list. "And how much do you think I should loose aweek?" Three pounds a week is reasonable I think."She wrote that down also and asked "And how much should my weight vary fromweek to week once I'm there?" I would think. She passed several tables of people having extremely elegant and expensive lunches, she passed senators dining on lobster and movie stars eating steaks. There was even a model or two in the mix, nibbling carefully on salads as though trying to work off the excess calories through the action of chewing. And she wondered what she was doing there. Empirically, of course, she knew. She’d been invited by Anne. Five years of no contact at all, not since she’d moved in with Alec (and what a mistake,. ”“Thanks!” Bert said and they got up and left.Callie had never made eye contact once during the short meeting, and that increased my anxiety that she’d actually been involved in the scandal in some way. There really wasn’t much I could do about that unless an accusation was made, so I went to find Wen so we could work through our accounting exercises and have Elyse check them. I was happy that we were using Lotus-123 now, since it made all the difference in the world.That evening, after dinner,.