She had last seen Judith last year at A Page With a View, the exhibition of landscape-driven artists books Judith curated at the Institute for Design & Experimental Art in Sacramento, but where was Judith now? No matter how much she concentrated on Judith's possible whereabouts (UCLA? Santa Barbara? Santa Monica?), Caydance's mind wandered to which blue shirt to wear to the East Bay Marina bar and restaurant, where she would meet Griff McGuire on Wednesday.

She had two blue shirts: the cotton one she had worn the first time she met him and a blue silk shirt that was a little too evening dressy or a little too office meeting, she wasn't sure which. There was only one thing to do, Caydance decided, go shopping in Union Square. On Wednesday morning, so that she had time to wash her hair.