You don’t mind if Jake stays, do you?”I chuckled, “No, not at all.”“Good. He’s taking me out for drinks after dinner, but we’ll be back ...y 11:00pm or so.”“I’ll be in bed by then,” I said,Joyce laughed, “I bet you will!”She opened her purse and handed me an envelope. I took it, and put it in the middle drawer of my desk without looking at it, as was my usual practice.“We had a meeting yesterday to discuss how we’d start the first week in June. You should probably talk with Elyse and Julia while. I guess the next day was Monday and I went to work. I don’t remember exactly what I did, but whatever Dustin had going on. I don’t remember if we worked every day. I think the next weekend we worked a wedding. Yes, we did. It was out in Round Lake, so we had rooms in the hotel. I went home on Sunday. Then it was another week of doing whatever Dustin had on. I don’t think we had anything that weekend. I think my period was due a week after that.”That wedding had to be it. Something had to have. "'This is your rifle; this is your gun. This is for fighting; this is for fun.' Maybe you should just go read Battle Cry."Matthews stood at our rear watching the shocked officer and a gathering of snickering marines. He appeared quite pleased with his new acquisitions.Rachel took charge and turned to our assemblage. "Let's not get these poor boys too stirred up. All companions get naked, and anyone who still has it, pass us your CAP card. Patricia, naked is optional for you. Stuff those undies. She had to hand it to the Agency; it knew how to play hardball and when ittook off its velvet gloves and got down to the matter of cash inflow itcould be super-tough. She had no idea what it made on the DePeau deal, butshe suspected it was probably in the millions... But so what? She didn'tbegrudge the Agency making money---she admired the entrepreneurs who hadfounded the business---as long as it was also a sweetheart deal for her...And it would be... Each week's check would be automatically.