She saw us and said, "hey Helen. HiPrissy. I love your new hairdo. It makes you look very professional. I'mValerie. Come on in and we'll get right to ...our paperwork."Helen said that she'd start looking for more career wear for me while wetook care of that. As she started pulling a file out and spreading somepapers out, she remarked that she loved my pink PVC outfit that I worethe last time I was here. It made me look very sexy, a bit over the topfor the mall, but she understood that I had. Bloody Hell, Gary must have been reading too many Len Deighton novels. He phoned Chubb."Beth has arrived and is in the Chef with three others." O.K. Boss. I'll let Spag know."The hands on the clock moved so slowly. Matt was tempted to email Gary and find out what was happening, but that wouldn't help. Gary would let him know as soon as he could. At eleven forty-two the ping came.Three packages despatched. Hired transport. One still in warehouse.Matt let Chubb know, together with the. In later years he would ask himself, if he knew what theextent of her offer was, known exactly what she intended... Would he havefought against it? And if he had had the strength to resist, but then hadbeen later educated as to what he had missed out on, what crushingflavour of regret would he have felt? But as they say, what's done isdone.He woke with a dizzying sense of panic, mouth dry, senses fighting tofind their footing. His vision was blurry, increasingly so on theperiphery. His body. Of course I kept that thought to myself and when I finished dancing with Shelly I took her back to our table, finished my drink, said goodbye to all and left.The next morning I’d been to work for an hour before I was called up to the office. When I got there Shelly asked:“What the hell happened last night? Why did you take off like that?”I told her what my thinking was and she said “I never considered it that way. I guess I can see your point. What I called you up here for is that your wife has.