" This openedPorter's eyes to all of the celebrities walking around, including localanchors and even the Mayor."How much does a month cost here?" Port...r asked incredulously."One thousand, nine hundred and ninety nine dollars," Shannon said asshe opened a door to a room filled with girls performing yoga, "andwe're told we're worth every penny." Shannon knew her timing was alittle more than perfect as Porter looked into the room and saw a dozengirls performing downward dog, and it was. He was also one of the (if not*the*) greatest minds in bio-chemistry, a kind of idiot savant - brilliant inone specialize area but not too far from average in all others. He wasworking on a very specialized chemical compound - an elixir - during overtimeat the lab he was helping to run over the summer. For now, he was officiallyonly a lab-tech but his work under Dr Buench would assure him an assistant'spost within the next year. Of course, if his compound worked the Universitymight just make. "The more Hetty protested her innocence and denied that anything had happened the more I smiled and shrugged my shoulders, "If the lady says it isn't true then it must not be true. Hetty wouldn't lie, now would she?"The incident did spark some interest in me by the other girls at school and until I graduated I never lacked for a date on the weekends and I had a pretty impressive list of conquests to my credit before I went off to college. Hetty and I both went off to college - different ones -. .don't seany. Ms. do you have any formal French Maid's uniforms that would dofor serving at a luncheon or dinner party?" Ah...no, no we don't carry that style of uniform, won't one of theseothers do," she asked almost cautiously."Oh no, never. Ms. Jessica must be properly represented at all timesit's my duty and purpose in life to impress her guests. Now I ask you,would you be impressed by a maid serving in one of these" and Chelseaheld up the uniforms?Sylvia looked toward Jessica who had a.