As she continued to speak, she reachedout her long fingers, to move the offending lock of hair where it hadfallen over one eye. Channing's eyes were l...cked on to her, as henervously bit down on his lower lip, while his right hand tugged at thetop of his stocking where the garter was attached. Rebecca nonchalantlytook his spiral notebooks from his left hand and put them with hers andthen placed her hand on his back as he began to climb the stairs into thebus. At this point, he paused and glanced. Neither of them seemed sorry, but Barbara nodded."Well, this is a quiet, calm neighborhood; at least it was before Mary died. It's not a place for wild parties. I accept your apology, though, and I hope it won't ever be necessary to call the police again." Oh, I'm sure it won't," said Charlie. "And now that we apologized for being loud, I wish that you would apologize for being such an uppity self-righteous old cunt." I am very, very sorry for being such an uppity self-righteous old cunt," said. " Thank you. Of course I'll always help. Her harddisk was worn, and actually I had to make four attempts before I had a workable copy." What did you do with the old harddisk?" Followed office practice, mr. P." And that is?" I broke the casing and took out the disk, which I also broke, to make sure no one could ever read it. And then it went out with normal trash. So right now it's probably somewhere on city dump." And you didn't notice anything unusual about it?" No. Only that it was the same. ?I think they can do anything they like? said Nicky ?who knows, they must have thought we maybe had explosives in our shoes like that guy recently coming from Sweden, or maybe even that we were smugglers. Anyway, we talked about not wearing shoes?. ?Yes, but from choice? said Cindy. ?Now until we either find our bags, or buy some shoes we have to go every where barefoot??? ? She tailed off as they noticed they had left the newer part of town and had entered a run down neighbourhood,.