After the austerity of respecting Robinson's ideas of suitable clothes, as he has called it several times now, it has to be a pleasant dress for going out at all, not to mention going on to dinner with Pascale Fedore. In her mood of defiance Ariel had been tempted to choose a tight dress with bright colour, but she had settled for a less bright colour, brilliantly laced dress. After her meeting with Pascale the first time, she had told Amy all about him and she had said she remembered him vaguely as a friend of a friend and a business partner of some sort , and when he had called for her this evening in his car, Ariel had joined him with her blessing. she thought since Robinson had not been at home, Amy was the next big person she could tell it to, at least she would have someone who would
