‘Is everything okay up there?’ she asked. She and the kids were in her Mercedes behind me. My sudden stop, which blocked her behind me in the driv...way, necessitated her call. ‘Uh, yeah, sure.’ I said. ‘Do you know what that new construction is?’ ‘No.’ Laura replied. ‘I’ll check on it when I get to my office.’ I drove on down to the road, then north along it until it turned downhill to meet the main roads. Seeing the construction to my right (and the University football stadium to my left), I. I changed the subject and we went back to work. A week or so later she showed up at work dressed exactly as she had for her interview. Cream colored dress, vintage tan stockings (or so I hoped) and the double-strap Mary Janes. I tried not to get too excited but that was impossible. She didn’t seem to mind me looking. In fact, I could have sworn she struck poses for me from time to time. The payoff came, however, at one point when she came over to my desk and was showing me a few things. . Yesthat would be great. Ok. I came back with two glasses and sat down in my Lazy-Boyacross from her. I barely caught the disappointment in her big blue eyes, butit was there. We started talking. I asked the questions mostly and she answeredthem...mostly. We did about an hour of that until Oprah came on then she wantedto watch that. So we watched Oprah together and talked some more. I would catchher looking at me in that special way. When I did, she would look at the floor.After Oprah, she. ” She said smiling. Gregory picked up the card from where he had placed it and left the kitchen leaving Margery staring at him as he left. When Monday morning came, the first thing Gregory did was call up the number on the card.“Alisha Powell Agency, how may I help you?” Came the voice when he called.“Yes, my name is Gregory Miller and I’m looking for a decent three bedroom house.” He adjusted his voice several times while talking. There was a little silence before the voice at the other end.