"I told you. The company's paying for it. They're so confident that thestore will be successful that they offered it as an enticement to anyonewho too... the job. That's one of the reasons that I applied," Emilyexplained as she took out her phone."What are you doing?" Stephen asked curiously. "Well I got an email fromthe members of the council before we left. They wanted to meet us assoon as we arrived. I was just replying to let them know that we'rehere." Stephen nodded."That's nice of them," he. “I’m glad you’re with me.”I knocked on Vice Principal Hinterberry’s door and we entered when invited.“Thanks for coming. Please take a seat,” said Vice Principal Hinterberry.I heard a quiet woosh of released breath from Maria as she realised it wasn’t going to be bad after all.“I’ve been keeping my ear to the ground and I’m impressed with your maturity,” said Vice Principal Hinterberry. “There hasn’t been the slightest hint around school of a link between Daisy Wilkins and Nazis. I’m putting a. However, I am not certain that the delegates’ requests were from them as individuals, or if they were presenting formal requests made by their governments. I will have to have Bashira explore that further.”Bashira had returned and had given us our coffee before Amir spoke, so he said, “I will look into that for you, Amir.”“That won’t be necessary, Bashira.“I wanted to present this request to you privately, Doug. If you were willing to help, I had planned for us to meet with the delegates for. ’ She knew I wasn’t much of a dancer. I would have chosen to jump off Navy Pier naked instead of dancing, but it was either the cocktail or that had my head in a spin that made me take up her offer. We slipped a few buildings down the street to a blues bar where the loud, danceable band could be heard from the street. We snagged a table for two next to the dance floor that had just been vacated. She wasted no time pulling me onto the floor as soon as the band kicked into ‘Mustang Sally.’ There.