They would gift-wrap and deliver. Unsophisticated in so many charming ways, Tabitha was much more sophisticated than he was about art. Dover print boo...ks, he thought, rather than something designed for a coffee table. He found four that he guessed might to fit her tastes. The book store sold wrapping paper as well. He wrapped each one separately after he got back from his lunch hour. That's what private offices are for, after all.Alex was not gone more than ten minutes before she ran water into. She straightened and looked questioningly at Angel. ‘Do you trust me?’ he was looking at the horizon, his face cast with a dirty blush by the sunset then turned to look at her, ‘Ill take you there.’ Kristal nodded slowly not fully picturing what lay ahead as his eyes twinkled with a calm inner fire and she was lost in the blue depth of them. Then her mind seemed to slow and focus all at once as she saw Angel stretch out his wings. He took her hands then and drew her close. ‘Hold on,’ he said. “How are things at the store?”“Good and good, I mean busy; well, you know,” she said. “I was nearby: I have a doctor’s appointment. And I decided to come by here first. I got a letter, believe it or not, from your man upstate.” The look on Ava Gardner’s face was pure surprise.“A letter from Julian?” said Ava.“Yes, delivered to the store, and it surprised me too. I mean he’s never written to me before,” she said.“Okay?” said Ava.“Yes, apart from the usual pleasantries, he asked if you and I were. We were to all visual intents transformed – Louisa was now ‘George’, and I was ‘Louisa’.‘George’ had a plan for the day. “Okay, let us test the waters and go for a walk to the park. I will leave by the back gate and go along the alleyway to the top of the street to be not spotted. You 'Louisa' need to leave the house by the front door and then come up the street to the far end where we can meet up. That way, the local busybodies will only see what they would expect – me leaving the house. Trust.