Blake sighed. “Okay, I guess the next part is for me and you, Ava,” he said.“Yes,” she said: “Marian.”“Yes,” he said.She was helping L...illian putting away the dishware from dinner and heard the door buzzer buzzing.She headed for the receiving room. She was right; it was her ex-fiancée.“Julian, so good to see you, really,” said Ava. “you just missed dinner.”“Oh, if I’d known I was welcome, I mean for dinner, I’d have come earlier,” I said.“You’re always welcome. You know that,” she said. “We. I also decided that my previous plans were too small and I needed to think bigger. That was when it occurred to me: the Senate. Instead of running for the House of Representatives, I would simply fill a vacant seat, and that was easy enough to cause. I would command a sitting U.S. Senator to resign and have the Governor appoint me in his stead. Once in office, I could then command any serious rivals to stand aside, so that only joke or straw candidates would oppose me, and they would lose. I. “What did you do next?”“I’m so glad you asked,” she said. “I’m really happy you’re so into this. Well, anyway, we didn’t get to do anything the next couple of days ‘cause it was the weekend. But on Monday I had to go into the office, and he was there. We exchanged a few looks, but kept things subtle. Then I saw him go into the men’s room. He picked the one in the back, near his office, which is surrounded by mostly-empty offices due to the recent cutbacks. I knew the odds of anyone else going. Actually what I wanted to do with the full length.”“What’s that?”“Reverse genders.”“Hunh. Wow. Okay.”“Okay?”“Yeah. Problem is I’m going to be busy. We’re taking my show to Chicago for a couple weeks. We’ll be heading down there just after Labor Day. I’d be free the weekend of the one act performances, but not a lot before then. You said you wanted to meet on Monday.”“You still want to?”“It would have to be later. I’ll be several miles south Sunday night, and it might be a long night, so...”“I’m.