How are you getting back to where you are staying?”“I was told there is a shuttle that can take me back to the hotel.”“Nonsense, I can give yo... a ride if you are ready to leave now.”Scott said he was and they both stood. He could see that his walking out of the dining room with Isabel drew some attention. They sat in the back seat of a stretched limousine while the driver and who Scott assumed was a bodyguard sat in front.During the drive Isabel said, “I guess it isn’t that late. Can I offer. " What?! No. NO, " I said a bit too loudly. "You can check with Carmel in Shreveport, before I met you. Or Angie in Lansing, that was about five years back. Or..." Okay! Stop! I got the picture. I don't want to know about all of them. Do you want to know about mine? There was Mel Stokowski; he was seventeen and I was eighteen. He was the backup center on the basketball team, and..."I reached over and put my hand over her mouth."I don't want to hear about any of them," I said softly. "Whether. ‘Nicole needs to be busy. She and I have no idea whether we will ever see Philip again. We have to move on with our lives. I don’t want to enter Oxford until she is safely into something she wants to do. When she comes later this week, would you be willing to talk about being her assistant in London? We have some money and can pay you and arrange housing.’ She sat up and pulled him to her. ‘Adrian, you give me such a rush! Look at you, tall, handsome, a scholar and an athlete.’ She wrapped her. The surroundings arelovely here. And there is much more freedom as you promised therewould be. Less constraints...." Don't be so serious Sophie dear. I was only teasing. Nothing haschanged in that you know my own hopes for you. And if such do notcurrently coincide long term with your own yearnings then we can atleast agree on the basis of 'gather ye rosebuds whilst ye may'. 'Carpe diem' ..... and all that."Her smile turned its attention to Anne."I gather that you are both signed up to the.