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“If I didn’t know better I’d think you were disappointed by my answer”

Was she?

That wasn’t disappointestion fro like that

She lifted her chin and looked his you needed to be doing”

“I’s under control, but I usually help straighten things up Afterward, we celebrate another successful shohich I’ that happened, because you were there and I got to spend time with you”

She glanced at her watch “You’re going out?”

“To an after-show party at Lanette and Roger Anderson’s place Lanette is one of the fema

le singers and who I asked to take over es she’d done that night and a pretty brunette with an a set of pipes came to mind

“She will have their place all decked out with Christmas decorations and will have made lots of food,” he continued “You want to come with me?”

She immediately shook her head “No, thanks I ate at the dinner show”

He laughed “I thought you’d say no”

“You should have said you had somewhere you needed to be”

“And keep you fro to invite me in? Why would I do that?”

“Because you’re a decent hu?”

“I a I have references, remember?”