But we couldn’t have a better attitude on the floor than we do now. What we can’t be sure about is whether we can maintain it. There’s still a s...nse of euphoria from the meeting Max ran. The people still seem all charged up.“What we’re hoping is that as the euphoria wears off — and it has to — it will be replaced by a sense of accomplishment as they see what they really can do on their own, without a battalion of inspectors looking over their shoulders. If a sense of accomplishment comes, that. "I know, I know," Chris said.They walked to the football stadium. Nancy scanned the stands. The seats were filled. She saw Mr. Milton high up, lifting a telescopic lens to his eye. She knew he was focusing in on her.She took the field with the girls.The band banged out a fast song, and the girls shoved their hips exaggeratedly to the right, bumped, then swung them salaciously to the left and bumped.Nancy bumped hot and good. Then she went into a long set of high kicks, her tiny blue skirt. The first store she herded me towards was a shoe store. She had me try on several different styles of high heels, everything from a five-inch stiletto to an inch-and-half kitten heel. She correctly surmised my awkward walk would give me away and settled on a pair of black leather boots that hit me just below the knee with a three-inch wedge heel. She said, "You don't have time to learn to wear high heels, but you should be able to navigate on the wedge heels of these boots and they'll. ” He shrugged and grinned, looking sheepish.Béla just looked at him, shock and disbelief slowly appearing on her face. Then she collapsed against him and cried. She didn’t stop crying for almost an hour. Jake figured she must have had a hell of a night and held her quietly the entire time, even though it was so unlike her to act like such a whiny female just for getting lost. If she was as old as he believed she was, she had undoubtedly been lost many, many times during her long life.Béla.