." I'm coming! Fifteen minutes!"Kathy handed me the phone. "God! It's like pulling teeth, sometimes! Fortunately, I don't try, usually..." Quite the w...rk ethic he has..." I chuckled."Yeah, well..." He's coming." Only because you scared him!" Wait here for him." I went back inside the classroom.The door guard had a questioner, "How bad is this?"The teacher sighed. "I've never been there, but..." What's the question?" I interrupted."We're ... not sponsors. What's the worst case scenario?"I. What have you to say?' Too easy.'That would be your daughter Rachel who's over eighteen and controls her own money, I guess.' He looked like he'd swallowed a lemon so I carried on. 'Coupla things, Mr. Curzon. One, I ain't gonna talk about your daughter in the third person, not to you nor to the goddam pope, come to that. Two, she know you're here?' He colored a tad.'Rachel is a young woman of high intelligence but limited experience. The fact that she chose to attend this college attests to. It was not static, it adapted over time to her preferences but it always remained the same - remained in the spirit of the home she had had before she lost everything. It always remained a home he created for her. She threw him a bitter-sweet smile over her shoulder as he stepped up to her.“You sleep badly in hotel rooms.” And that reason was enough for him to create this, to create the haven here. In its love, its devotion, that gesture was more terrifying than an angry word would have been.. "I'd really like to see him ditchthose old rags." I already have," Steve said, holding up a black trash bag. "Take asmany as you like. I just want to get rid of them."Most of the shirts were pale blue, and you could see the odd hole orstitching where police badges had been removed. There were also dresstrousers with a red and yellow stripe down the seam. But Rachael wasmore interested in the three pairs of jeans. She took those, and thebest five of the shirts."What about a belt?" she wondered..