“Okay, if I get a job, you’ll think about it?”
“If the job’s good enough.”
“You know, Angel skin, I’m getting a little tired of your mercenary outlook.”
She pouted. “Will you go see Andasca?” she said, “just to please me?”
“What about you?” I said, hoping to side-track. “What am I to tell Doc and Sam? Don’t you want to find your father or Kelly or the girl who looks like you?”
“Ross,” she said, gripping my hand tightly “so long as we have each other nothing matters. I just want you and I to be together always. Can’t we forget about the other two?”
“Well, we could drop them,” I said slowly, “but we’d have to tell them.”
“Then let’s tell them,” she said eagerly. “Let’s tell them now.”
“Okay,” I said, “I don’t mind” and I glanced at my watch. It was just after three o’clock.
“They should be in, unless Sam’s gone down to the poolroom.”