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Annalisa led hiht blues and greens, that she called her office She flipped open the top of her coet on the Internet,” she said “I’m supposed to have soo online anywhere in the world But it’s not et online in my own apartment”

Sam sat down in front of the computer His hands flew over the keys “That’s funny,” he said “The signal is scrambled”

“What does that mean?”

“In layperson’s teriant conal The question is, where is the satellite syste from?”

“But aren’t there satellites everywhere?” Annalisa asked “For GPS? And those satellite ihborhoods?”

“This one’s stronger,” Sa

“Could it be co from upstairs? From my husband’s office?”

“Why would he have a satellite system?”

Annalisa shrugged “You kno men are For him, it’s another toy”

“A satellite is not really a toy,” Sam said with adult authority “Governments have them”

“In a large or s to make a joke

“Is your husband home? We could ask him,” Sam said

“He’s almost never hoo from his office to the airport”

“I should be able to fix it without his and reboot, and you should be fine”

“Thank God,” Annalisa said She knew Paul would have been irritated if Sao into his office, but on the other hand, if he had, she simply wouldn’t have told Paul Exactly what did he have in that office, anyway, besides his fish? What if soh trouble in the building as it was—the in-the-wall air-conditioning units hadn’t been approved, so Paul had had the French doors cut in half and air-conditioning units installed in the bottom portion, which hat he should have done in the first place—but Mindy Gooch still refused to talk to her When Annalisa approached her in the lobby, Mindy would say coldly, “Enjoying the apartment, I hope,” and walk away Even the doormen, who had been friendly at first, had become somewhat aloof Paul suspected the doorh she said he was being paranoid, he wasn’t all wrong There had been a contretemps over a beaded Chanel jacket worth thousands of dollars that the er service had sas delivered; it was finally discovered two days later, having been left in Schiffer Dia hadn’t been labeled properly, but even so, it did make Annalisa wonder if the other residents disliked them Now she orried about Paul’s co happened while they were halfway around the world in China?