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People talk about physical care: but where is the moral care? Beauty treatments should begin with the heart and the soul, otherwise cosmetics are pointless. After we stood up, I got the idea that he was a photographer from a foreign country who’d heard of the Wild Children and happened now to be searching for them, just as I was. I pointed at myself and him and Dock Wood to let him know that I could show him the way. He looked at me and smiled and shook his head. Dad sees immediately that I’m feeling low. He probably also realizes, before I utter a word, that I’ve come to betray him. I’m a female Judas, a false daughter who’s come here just to leave, to leave him, my bleary-eyed sad old dad. The dad who gave me good memories, the dad who read “Hansel and Gretel” andOh How Strange It Was with incredible dramatic emphasis, modifying his voice and singing in falsetto to amuse his little girl. Dad, the shop teacher himself, who created things day and night, artful little rotary grindstones and puzzles. Dad, who substituted for J?n P?lsson, the master hobbyist and host of National Radio’sLeisure Time Program when J?n’s voice became too hoarse. ‘You, ya fucken eejit. You’re me shady associate. Listen, get your arse down here now.’ “Well,” I started, but decided not to press the point. How do you explain what makes a city? Not the number of people or the sluggishness of traffic, but what? What I’d had in mind was something like my daily commute to the office at Lake Merritt, where I would stand in the aisle of the crowded 88 bus and listen to secrets traded and affirmed in the boundless languages of the world, where I’d hold on to the chrome bars so tightly that when my stop finally came, my hands smelled strikingly and perfectly of blood. A city got its smell on you, the smell of life itself, and no matter how inflated its population had grown, the Antelope Valley was no city. Duncan wasn’t certain of her meaning until he saw the contented way she watched the girl entering the joyful camp of natives and Europeans. We’ve made our oasis in the forest-she meant the sanctuary she had dreamed of. “You’ve done it,” he replied. Go about what? Christy Gaffney stood frozen rigid, a man who had seen a ghost. Hickey faltered.‘It’s Tristram,’ he clarified, though Christy knew perfectly well who I was. ‘Tristram from the castle,’ Hickey prompted him, though there could hardly have been two of us on the hill with that name. Christy took hold of his polished wooden countertop and leaned across the bar to inspect me. His eyes roamed over my features for a good thirty seconds, an expression of the utmost gravity on his face. He walked past an organ-grinder standing in the pouring rain. His instrument was covered by a sheet. He was playing‘Castilliana’. “Norman?” “What’s happenin’ with you, girl?” Rhonda asked after the tide of her emotions ebbed a bit. “How come you quittin’?” I found the plan exhausting. Intuiting this, my mom gathered my dishes and said,“There’s no rush. You’re on vacation. But for your dad’s lunch break, you know, we have to time it right.” Let’s let the wine breathe a bit, says Yves. Would you like to come in? asks Bett?. I thrust my head forward in order to hear better. She misunderstands my gesture and thinks that I’m going to kiss her, so I give her an awkward kiss that lands near her ear. “Give Deb her money back and tell Dick from me that he should repay you. If he doesn’t like that he knows where to find me. If he needs a friend in some of his work he can call me then too. How’s that?” No problem. I’m a professional bed-maker, after all. I knew him. I knew him the second I saw him. I recognised him from his moniker. Tall, fair-haired, blue-eyed, buff and in rude— no, obnoxious — good health. An invader to this island if ever I saw one. Not an indigenous short-arse like Hickey or a gaunt Anglo-Norman like me, but a Viking right down to his marrow. The Viking tossed his hair.‘Sweet. A lot of new customers for my bar.’.