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Ben got himself up. "You drunk?"

Beth brushed at her hair. "I thought if you were sitting out here and I showed up in the bedroom, you'd
think I came in the back way. Or that I was already in there and just hadn't heard you." She bit her thumb.
"Just another trick I wanted to try."

"What are you talking about?" He bent and scooped up the bead necklace.

"Go away. That's all."

"Well, why?" He twisted the string of beads around his knuckles. "Somebody else?"

"Yes. Alex." She smiled.

"Alex? That fruiter who runs the Actors' Lab." The string broke and beads splattered away from him.
Three landed in the fire.

"Or maybe my Uncle Russ. Did you know we lived with him for three years when I was a kid and I was
always having odd fevers and things? He had some kind of quack x-ray business."

Pendleton took Beth's shoulders. "You're sick, is that it?"

"No. Go away, Ben."

"Well, what is it?"

Beth sighed, annoyed. "You know about Method. You have to feel the parts, live them."

"Sure."

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Beth shrugged her shoulders until Pendleton let go. "One weekend afternoon—oh, about two or three
weeks after the agency sent you off—I was here trying to be an old lady. For an exercise at the Lab. And
I was."

Pendleton blinked at her still pale face. "That's swell, Beth. A guy likes to know what his fiancee is up to
while he's away."

"I was an old lady." She stood with her body thrust almost against him. "See? I changed."

He backed a little. "How about a drink?"

"Don't you get it, Ben? How the hell do you think I Just came in?"

"The back way." Pendleton decided to try a drink on her and then find out who her doctor was these
days.