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the crowd toward a door at the very back of the room. Unable to take
her eyes off his broad back, Maggy found herself fighting a wave of
dizziness.

Glancing almost blindly around, she discovered Sarah's and Buffy's eyes
fixed on her. She knew it was essential that she snap out of it, that
she present a normal appearance to her companions. But such poise was,
at the moment, beyond her.

The door closed behind Nick, shutting him out of her sight.

Awareness of the world around her returned with a jolt. The sound of
laughter and the clink of glasses, the growl of a male voice singing
".

. . call someone who cares . .

." over a throbbing guitar, the smell of cigarette smoke and the warm
crush of bodies packed in around her assaulted Maggy without warning.

Faded into nothingness by Nick's presence, they burst upon her
consciousness now that he was gone, and she felt as if she were
drowning beneath the onslaught.

"Magdalena?" asked Sarah quizzically.

"Who is he?" Buffy breathed.

"Nobody, really. I used to know him a long time ago, before I married
Lyle."

Maggy called on every inner reserve of strength she possessed to
present a picture of nonchalance. What she wanted more than anything
else in the world at that moment was to turn tail and run as fast as
she could. But the surest way to draw attention to herself and Nick
was to let her companions see how shaken she was by their encounter.

"And you still married Lyle?" Buffy snickered, clapped a hand over her
mouth, and rolled her eyes in exaggerated apology without looking the
least bit repentant. Her hand dropped away from her mouth, and she
added with a sly grin, "Of course, even I can see that all that money
does great things for Lyle's sex appeal."

"Buffy! That's not nice," Sarah chided with a quick glance at Maggy.

"I know it. Lucky for me both you and Maggy already know I'm not a
nice person." Buffy glanced at Maggy's still-white face. "I'm sorry,
Maggy. I didn't mean anything, you know."

"I know." Buffy's real consternation penetrated the cold shock that