" She pulled the top from one of the boxes and started flinging the contents onto the table. I stared at her. "You might like being young, but y...u might have noticed I'm female. That's not exactly something that was on my to-do list." "Yeah, I didn't think..." She paused with a flowered top in her hand. "I wish that hadn't happened. But you can put it down as a learning experience." "A what?" But Cathy wasn't listening to me. She was looking at some skirts so small I. Then I gestured for her to come in. It was a large room at the back of the building, and it was fairly clean and well-maintained for a public restroom. There was a row of stalls along the inside wall that adjoined the hallway. The sinks were under the windows on the opposite side. I could see lights going on in the taller buildings of Harlem.Once we were in there, we talked in low voices, close to whispers. For one thing, we didn't want anyone passing in the hallway to hear us.I said, "When I. I had just started a book about the French Revolution when Kelly walked in. “Hey Kelly, how’s Family Day,” I asked. Kelly didn’t answer. Instead, she just looked at me with a questioning glance and went into the bathroom. When she came out, she had changed from jeans and a blouse, this being the first time I ever recalled her wearing jeans, into a skimpy set of black lingerie. I was about to open my mouth to ask what she was up to when she came over to me and put a finger on my lips. Then she. " That's really good of you." I can't just throw you and Shirl on the street, can I?"Rob's truck was in the drive when I got home. I pulled in parallel to him so that Weena'd have no trouble when she got home."You phoned," I said."Yes, your young man was quite efficient. I wanted to ask you about a place called Kwinana." It's south of here, north of Rockingham. East of route 1 and west of highway 2. We sort of passed by it both coming and going." Billiton's got a big nickel refining plant.