It would just be for the rest of the school year," Tony suggested cautiously. "I know you wanted no part of live-in when we chose the private school i... the first place. But the situation has changed. It would only be for a half-year."Nina sat staring at the wall, lost in thought. Tony remained silent, waiting for her response."I'm willing to talk to them about it," she said at length. "You know I'm not keen on them living elsewhere. But ... I think ... to be fair ... I'll talk to them. At least. She told him she'd get his order into our distributor that afternoon. After a comment about how attractive she was, he left. All before I went in, just after 3pm.Later that afternoon, I noticed that when I was on the customer side of the counter, I couldn't see her from the waist down. When I commented on that, she giggled and said that meant she didn't need to wear underwear when she worked the counter. Nor anything else, for that matter. When I asked her if she wanted to try that, she got. I should never have left Texas. At least there the cows don’t try to mug you and if one of them knocks you over, you know it was an accident.”“My name is James. James Marsters. Now at least you know one person in New York.”At the mention of his name, I looked up. I knew that voice had sounded familiar and now I knew why. James Marsters was one of my fantasy play dates back in Texas. I was completely caught off guard. I didn’t want to seem like one of those kooky fans that gawked and fawned all. We sort of passed by it both coming and going." Billiton's got a big nickel refining plant there. The product from up north gets shipped from Port Hedland, but from Kwinana could go more or less direct. They want me to look over the way the place runs." You're working pretty hard for a retired gent!" I've got the wool over their eyes. They still think I know something." Want a beer?"So we were sitting out back, each with a long neck."Here I'm running my feet off in the hospital and you two lags.