Knock, knock. Flor opens the door. Bebe is seated on the bed center, holding hands with Luz on one side, Carlita on the other.I wish I could have eave...sdropped on the story Luz and Carlita told their pals. Chilly in here. Is it my imagination, or is everyone looking at me with ... distrust? Mom advised to be truthful!. The girls are waiting for a number ten coal scoop of pure BS from me.I don’t have enough presents for four girls! Improvise. I apologize and promise makeup gifts in the near. Passenger train come past, headed for Grimsby, engine were off beat a bit. It were an old ‘un built be Beyers at Manchester for Lincolnshire and Yorkshire Railway. Four big driving wheels as big as a man and four little 'uns out front. Over thirty year old, losing time but nowt they couldn’t mek up wi a bit o’speeding a bit over Ellerbeck viaduct and junction beyond.Next along were Immingham goods. On footplate were young Tommy Aisgarth. He were real excited, officially like as he were. Go to Omotesando Hills to shop. My assistant Risa Yoshiki will go with you. She is a good shopper. Risa also knows the salon where my wife does her hair.” David smiled a big toothy very white smile. Sugihara’s bonded-tooth dentist created smile was too white to even pass for real. Yet on the slick-talking Japanese banker the 150-watt beaming smile seemed totally genuine. This gregarious investment banker could work a room filled with sharks, so a rather momentarily tongue-tied foreigner and a. The episode in Geneva was still with her. Johannes had been a good friend and a rewarding lover since she had left the life whose end she was still trying to forget. After Rummy Harms, he was the most reliable, the most understanding and sensitive man she had known through those years of reconstruction. The night with René had just been an opportunity to bank the fires that had gone unslaked during the days in Geneva and London.But, as she considered it all, she thought, too, of Johannes, and.