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"I'm not attending that. I've never been to a damn class reunion and I'm not
starting now. I haven't even set foot in California for sixteen years."

"Note this line--'Keynote Speaker at the Reunion Banquet will be Olive Bunce.'"

"Noted."

"You're fortunate that your wife thinks more of the company than you do."

"Natalie really sent that to you?"

"The original came in today's mail and once Natalie spotted it, she knew what to
do."

"She opened my personal mail and shared it with a stranger, huh?"

"It's an invitation, not anything confidential. And I'm far from being a
stranger," countered the publisher. "Natalie happens to be aware that we're
anxious to get Olive Bunce in our stable."

"Listen, Lex, I have absolutely no influence on Olive. We haven't even exchanged
Christmas cards for over ten years at least."

"She's divorced."

"So?"

"Well, the loves of our youth are the deepest and truest."

"I know, that was the blurb on the jacket of Sins of the Flesh. Even so, I--"

"Here's something else I want you to think over, Rog. Either get ready for a
trip out to California-- or put all your crap in a cardboard box and vacate this
office by sundown."

Roger took another look out his window. "Will you pay all my expenses for the
reunion?" he asked finally.

"Within reason, sure."

He said, "Okay, I'll go. I can't, though, promise --"

"I don't want promises, I want results." Tandem moved to the doorway. "And see
if you can, somehow, improve your overall looks before you head West."

Roger finished his Saturday list, weekly errands Natalie assigned him, an hour
earlier than he'd expected. When he realized that, he was driving his
six-year-old Toyota through a rural section of Brimstone, Connecticut that he
hadn't been in lately. It was ten minutes shy of three and the afternoon was