After dinner we stayed at the Sandbar for an hour or so, drinking and talking about books, movies, and music. I found it unbelievable that her range of knowledge was equal in all three categories and not limited to her trade. She told me she was twenty-nine and I had to grab on to the table so I didn’t fall out of my chair. Not that an age difference bothered me, she just seemed older, I originally thought I was the younger one. Janine seemed to me so worldly, and I was considered pretty worldly myself.
She was highly educated. Janine had spent two years at a small, private university in Denver she’d chosen based on the reputation of its math and science curriculum. She’d studied to be an architect, and taken an opening in an exchange student program to go to Versailles for a year. After
