At that moment Kit passed close to Bette’s table and she called her over. “Kit, the woman over there in the
blue dress, do you know who she is?”  Kit looked over and shrugged, “She comes in here around this time each day, I think she has one of those fancy offices near your gallery.  Not sure about her name it’s maybe Mina or Nina or Tina or something like that.  I don’t know much more but I’m guessing you just might like to know much, much more!”  She winked at Bette and went back to the counter to serve a customer. 

Bette looked back towards the woman and felt momentary panic, she was no longer at the table.  Frantically her eyes searched the room and she could almost taste her relief as she saw her walking towards the counter to pay her bill.  Hurriedly Bette gathered her purse and rushed out of the door moments after the woman in blue.  She saw her walking along the sidewalk in the direction of Bette’s gallery and she kept following her through the thickening lunchtime crowd.  At one point Bette saw the woman turn and look over her shoulder causing Bette to freeze and take a sudden interest in a newspaper stand to her left.  She picked up a magazine and pretended to flick through it glancing over the top to look for the woman in blue.  “This is absurd” she muttered to herself as she replaced the magazine and set off again after the woman who had just turned the corner.  “What the hell am I doing and what am I going to say if I round the corner and she is standing there?” she asked herself through gritted teeth.  Bette rounded the corner and was only feet from the door to her gallery but there was no sign of the woman in blue.  For several minutes she walked up and down the sidewalk trying to figure out where the woman had gone but she was unable to locate her.  Bette’s shoulders slumped and she walked back to the door of her gallery feeling almost bereaved at losing this woman just as quickly as she had found her.

She climbed the stairs to her office and nodded at her assistant James “Any messages James?” she asked, “None at all” he replied “Guess you can have a quiet afternoon”.  Great thought Bette not even messages and
work to distract her.  She stopped and looked back at her assistant “Hey James, you’ve worked some seriously long hours lately I think you deserve the afternoon off, Ill get any incomings you just head off for some relaxation”.  James smiled and grabbed his jacket “You don’t need to tell me twice, thanks boss” he said and headed out the door.