'So little time.'
'You can do it,' I said.
'I think maybe I did,' she said.
She gave me a friendly kiss on the mouth and began to take things out of the bags.
'Any luck today?' she said.
'Yeah, we found Anthony.'
'Oh,' Susan said.
'Excellent. What now?'
'We talked,' I said.
'And we decided to await developments.'
'How about Anthony's wife?'
'She seems to have disappeared. Last seen at Logan Airport an hour ago. Ventura thinks she's on her way here.'
'Looking for Anthony?'
'That's what Ventura thinks.'
'Why did she decide to come now?' Susan said.
'Yeah, I wondered about that,' I said.
'Maybe she just got restless.'
'Maybe she wanted to share in Anthony's dream,' Susan said.
'Imagine having Vegas dreams,' I said.
'But why now? It's almost like she knew we found him.'
'How would she know?'
'There's been a guy following us.'
'Here?'
'Yeah, little guy, big nose, Panama hat,' I said.
'I haven't noticed him.'
'You haven't been looking,' I said.
'Why is he following us?'
'Don't know,' I said.
'Who do you think sent him?'
'Don't know,' I said.
'Do you think he told Shirley?'
'Maybe,' I said.
'Right on top of this, aren't you,' Susan said.
'Well, the tail's good news in some sense, so is Shirley, if she comes out here. Means things are stirring.'
'The hardest part, in therapy, is when nothing's happening,' Susan said.
'That's the idea,' I said.
'Ventura wants us to sit tight and grab her if she shows up.'
'You want to sit tight anyway, don't you?'
'Yeah.'
'Perfect.'
Susan held up a yellow linen jacket. When I first knew her I would say things like Don't you already have a jacket like that?
But I have learned much since those early days.
'Looks great,' I said.
'You like the color?'
'Yellow,' I said.
'Jonquil,' Susan said with some scorn.
'You like it?'
'Love it,' I said.
She took it to the mirror and put it on and turned around and checked the rear view and made nine or ten
