Stripping the display windows takes no time at all. I’ve done it many times and have it all down to a science. By quarter of ten the window was bare... I measured out the bright red base fabric and stapled it in place. Earlier in the week I had picked up a train set at one of the toy stores in the mall. I’d made a deal with the manager there that I’d put a sign on one of the cars that this set was available at his store so it cost me nada. He even threw in enough track so I could snake it through. She was looking intently at her dress, as if trying to dissect the fibre with her eyes. ‘No. no apology needed. I over-reacted. Look, the guy that was with me that last time, the one which you saw- we had some issues. Painful issues. You didn’t know anything about it, so no need to say sorry, okay? It was stupid of me to react like that anyway. I should be apologizing about how I ran away and left you alone at the deli.’ Her voice, soft but firm, was hypnotic. He could listen to her all day.. She had just gotten out of the shower, when she heard the buzzer, running down the stairs she let Mike in before the buzzing woke Elizabeth, Taipei had vanished the moment the buzzer had sounded. Mike blinked to see a wet towel wrapped Sophie beaming at him as he walked in the door, she grabbed his hand dragging him up the stairs saying something about a drain being clogged, Taipei chuckled, Elizabeth giggled. Elizabeth got up, pulling on her nightie and bathrobe, she went into the kitchen to. Sandra laid out the details of her new information and the proposed plan to catch all the perpetrators in a single swoop this very evening."Sandra, it is going to be hard to get all those warrants so quickly."She took a quick gulp of her coffee for fortitude, and replied,"Alex, this might be our only chance. If we don't act swiftly, some of us may not be around for future discussion."Alex got her point and nervously ran his finger around the top of his steaming cup of coffee."OK, Sandra, I will.