“She’s very formal. And unpleasant.”“You’ve met the queen?”“I guess you could say we’ve met, but I’d rather not talk about her.”�...Oh, I’m sorry. Is it true what Bobo said about the palace being made of glass?”“What else did he say?” Ellerie asked, tensing.“Not much. It was just an offhand comment he made a long time ago.”The other woman nodded, seeming to relax. “There are glass palaces—more than one—but they’re not all that interesting, to be honest. It’s a pretty place on the surface, but...”. ” It was the only thing he could think of to say. It came out apologetically and feeling as if he had intruded, Jon left April to clean up while he changed from his wet clothes and called in. His working day was a ruin now, so the couple of hours delay before the auto rescue people could recover his car wasn’t the major catastrophe it would normally have been.An hour had passed since his return to the house to find April in her compromising position, before he saw her again. She had dressed in. "Nah, gonna go for a walk. I need to get some tapes for the VCR. Have a look around some stores. That sort of thing. I'll catch you guys later." Okay, Bud," said Josh as the three of them turned and crossed the road to where the oldest member of our group had parked his Chevy, "Don't do anything stupid!" he laughed, turning to give me a thumbs up.Yeah. Sure. Whatever.I turned and headed North along the long line of stores which made up the main shopping street in the district. Stores that. I was going out with Sally for her fortieth birthday. Even though I didn’t love Sally, I did care deeply for her. Although we had never dated exclusively, we remained good friends. You see Sally and I had recognized early in our friendship that a long-term relationship would never work. We would have torn each other apart. But with that tension out of the away, we found our way to a lasting friendship with benefits. We still got together occasionally, for a night of passionate play. I knew that.