She nodded back. “I was seventeen. I had a crush on you for nearly a month.”

“No wonder. Have you been showing this around?”

“I have not! Damn it, you ought to be touched!”

“Hell, I am touched, but not as much as I was an hour ago. I thought you liked my nose or the hair on my chest or something, and here it was only a childhood memory.”

“What if I feel it coming back?”

“Don’t try to sweeten it. Anyway, now I have a problem. Who else might possibly remember this picture — and there have been a couple of others — besides you?”

She considered. “Gwenn might, but I doubt it, and I don’t think anyone else would. If you have a problem, I have a question. What are you here for? Louis Rony?”

It was my turn to consider, and I let her have a poker smile while I was at it.

“That’s it,” she said.

“Or it isn’t. What if it is?”