Phelps followed. He kept cautioning himself. He couldn't be certain, but he thought the girl might have seen him yesterday at the beach. He didn't wan... to spook her. This woman was special. She had real potential.Phelps well understood; even a woman with this one's star quality wasn't "on" all the time. He needed to handle her with care. He would be certain that she wouldn't see him again -- not until he judged her to be ready.The van continued down the main highway, southeast toward the sea,. She was introduced as Tammy. So the mom and Tammy fixed themselves some drinks and we set off. I followed along and Tammy and I started to hit it off. We did several blocks and a couple places were set up as haunted houses. At one of these houses the mom took all the kids and left me a Tammy to our own devices while we waited. I had made a comment a couple of houses earlier about the good looking mom that was giving out the candy. The mom even knew this lady which made it more of a. "Well, Kelly dear, I am so glad to see that you're embracing yourfeminine side," Mrs. Manichev says, indicating my hair and my skirts."I imagine that you'll be a woman on campus from now on? That's good.It's best to be yourself. Don't you agree, Frederick? You'll see thatshe's taken care of and given the respect as a physicist that shedeserves?" Yes, absolutely!" Well, then, that's all settled!" said Mrs. Manichev. "Now you won'thave to pretend to be a man anymore. You must be so relieved!". And when she overtook that bus on that winding country lane —"Gabby clearly felt this was not her fault. "These roads are too narrow," she said. "They should make them wider."Fran turned on Gabby. "And another thing," she asserted; "when a traffic light's red, you're supposed to stop."Gabby's expression suggested that no reasonable person would take seriously such an absurd regulation. "Fran, honey," she explained, "there was no traffic." There was an old lady crossing!" Fran retorted.