Chapter 12 Chapter Twelve

Superintendent Torsden Aiklint, the head of the Constitutional Protection Team of the National Security Bureau, slowly turned the glass of red wine in his hand, listening carefully to the words of Milton Security President.Armansky called without warning and insisted on inviting him to dinner at his residence in Lidingyue on Saturday.His wife Reva prepared a delicious stew, and they ate happily and chatted politely with each other.Ai Kelinte couldn't guess what Armansky's intentions were.After dinner, Reva sat on the sofa and watched TV, leaving the two of them talking at the dinner table.Armansky then began to talk about Salander.

Aiklint and Armansky had met twelve years earlier when a congresswoman had received death threats.At that time, the congresswoman reported the incident to the party convener, and the Congressional security team was immediately notified, which soon attracted the attention of the secret police.At the time, the Body Guard had the lowest budget of any secret police unit, but MPs were protected throughout their public appearances.As for after get off work, she can only ask for blessings, but this is also the time when she is most likely to be attacked.The congresswoman then begins to doubt the protective capabilities of the secret police.

When she came home one night, someone broke into her house, scrawled obscenities in the living room, and masturbated on her bed.She then hired Milton Security to take care of her personal safety, but did not inform the secret police of her decision.The next morning, as she was heading to a school in Tabby on her scheduled trip, government security personnel clashed with her Milton bodyguard. At that time, Ai Kelinte was the acting deputy head of the personal security team.He didn't like to see private bully bodyguards doing what government departments should do, but he had to admit that MPs had good reasons to complain.However, instead of making the problem worse, he invited the CEO of Milton Security to dinner.They agreed that the situation might be more serious than the secret police had expected, and Aiklint also learned that Armansky's men were not only skilled for the job, but also well-trained and even better equipped.In the end, they agreed to let Armansky's people act as bodyguards, and the secret police would be responsible for criminal investigation and payment, which solved the immediate problem.

The two found themselves admiring each other, and they enjoyed working together over the next few years.Ai Kelinte respected Armansky very much, and when he was eager to invite him to dinner and wanted to talk privately, he was also willing to listen. But he didn't expect Armansky to drop a lit bomb on his lap. "You mean that the secret police are involved in major crimes?" "No," Armansky said, "you misunderstood. I mean some of the secret police were involved in this kind of behavior. I don't think the Director of Homeland Security allowed them to do it, and I don't think there's government sanction."

Aikelint looked at the photo taken by Christ, which showed a man sitting in a car with a license plate number starting with KAB. "Amansky...isn't this a prank?" "I wish it was." The next morning, after Ai Kelinte entered the office of the General Administration, he carefully wiped his glasses clean.He has gray hair, a pair of big ears and a resolute face, but the expression at this time is more confusion than resoluteness.He had been worrying all night yesterday, not knowing what to do with the message Armansky had given him. All unpleasant thoughts.In Sweden, (nearly) all parties consider the secret police to be indispensable, yet wary of them, and concoct conspiracy theories about them out of thin air.There were indeed a lot of scandals, especially in the 1970s when leftist radicals were in power and some constitutional mistakes were made.But after five public inquiries into the much-criticized secret police, a new crop of public officials has been born.They represent a younger wing of activists from the economics, weapons and anti-fraud units of the national police force, officers who investigate real crimes rather than chasing political phantoms.The secret police has been modernized, and the Constitutional Security Unit in particular has taken on a significant new role, mandated by the government to uncover and prevent internal security threats to the country, which use violence, threats or coercion to try to change our regime, influence The decision-making direction of a political entity with decision-making power or relevant units, or illegal activities that prevent citizens from exercising their personal rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution, etc.

In short, to defend Swedish democracy against real or perceived anti-democratic threats.Their main concern is anarchists, because of their insistence on nonviolent resistance, and neo-Nazis, who, being called Nazis, are by definition enemies of democracy. After a law degree, Aiklint became a prosecutor and then joined the secret police twenty-one years ago.He started out in the bodyguard unit, then moved into the constitutional protection unit as an analyst and director, and finally became the head of the police force that defends Sweden's democracy.He considers himself a democrat.The Constitution is made by Congress and it is his duty to keep it intact.

Swedish democracy is based on only one premise: the right to free speech.This gives the people an inalienable right to say, think and believe about anything.This right covers all Swedish citizens, from forest-dwelling neo-Nazi lunatics to stone-throwing anarchists, and everyone else. Every other fundamental right, like the right to form a government, the right to associate freely, etc., is just a physical extension of the right to free speech.The survival of democracy depends entirely on this law. All democracies have their limits, and the limits of the right to free speech are regulated by the Freedom of the Media Statute, which defines four constraints on democracy: child pornography and depictions of certain violent Do not incite or induce others to commit crimes; do not slander or slander others; do not arouse ethnic hatred.

Congress has similarly regulated media freedom based on socially and democratically acceptable social constraints, the social contract that forms the framework of a civilized society.The essence of the legislation asserts that no one has the right to harass or humiliate anyone else. Since the right to free speech and freedom of the press are both laws, some kind of agency is needed to ensure that people abide by the law.In Sweden, this function is split between two agencies. The first is the Attorney General's Office, which prosecutes offenses against the Freedom of the Media Act.Aikelint was not satisfied with this.In his opinion, the attorney general has been too lenient with what he considers to be a direct violation of Sweden's constitution.The Attorney General always replied that the principles of democracy were too important to intervene in the warning unless it was urgent.However, in recent years, his attitude has been increasingly questioned, especially after the report of Sweden's Helsinki Committee Secretary-General Rob Holder.The report examines years of lack of mobility by the attorney general and says it is nearly impossible to prosecute and sentence anyone for violating the ethnic hatred law.

The second institution is the Constitutional Guarantee Team of the Secret Police, and Superintendent Aiklint takes this responsibility very conscientiously.He believes that this is the most important position that the Swedish police can hold. In the entire Swedish judicial and police circles, he is unwilling to exchange any position with him.He is the only policeman in Sweden who can be a political policeman. This task is very difficult and requires great wisdom and judicial self-control, because the experience of too many countries shows that political police departments can easily become the biggest threat to democracy.

Most of the media and the public think that the main function of the Constitutional Security Group is to track down Nazis and radical vegans.Such groups do attract the attention of the Constitutional Guarantee Unit, but there are many other organizations and phenomena that also fall under the jurisdiction of this unit.For example, if the king or the supreme commander of the army believes that the parliamentary system is outdated and should be replaced by a dictatorship, the king or commander will immediately be placed under observation by the Constitutional Protection Group.As another example, if a group of police officers decides to expand the law so that it violates the constitutionally guaranteed rights of individuals, then the constitutional safeguards unit has a responsibility to respond.If there is such a major case, the Attorney General should also direct the investigation.

Of course, the problem with the constitutional protection team is that they only have the function of analysis and investigation, and have no operational power. Therefore, Nazis are usually arrested, and the non-regular police officers who take action are personnel from other departments of the secret police. Ai Kelinte was deeply dissatisfied with such a situation.Almost every democratic country has some form of independent constitutional court, which is responsible for monitoring the powers that do not trample on the democratic process arbitrarily.In Sweden, that's the job of the attorney general and the parliamentary ombudsman, who monitors civil servants for malfeasance, but they can only implement recommendations relayed by other ministries.If Sweden had a constitutional court, Salander's lawyers could immediately sue the Swedish government for stripping her of her constitutional rights.The court can then order all the data to be called, or call anyone, including the prime minister, to testify until the matter is resolved.In the current situation, her lawyer can only complain to the Congressional Ombudsman, but the Congressional Ombudsman has no right to request information or other evidence from the secret police. Aiklint has been a passionate advocate for the establishment of a constitutional court for many years.If such a court existed, it would be easier for him to act on the information Armansky provided: just draw up a police report, submit the data to the court, and an unstoppable process would begin. Under the current situation, Aikelint has no legal right to initiate a preliminary investigation. He stuffed a pinch of smokeless cigarettes into his mouth. If Armanski's information is correct, it means that the veteran secret police turned a blind eye when a Swedish woman suffered a series of serious injuries.Then her daughter was locked up in a mental hospital because of a fake diagnosis report.Finally, they condoned a former Soviet intelligence agent to commit crimes involving the arms, drug and sex trade.Aiklint had a painful expression on his face. He didn't even want to estimate how many illegal acts occurred in it, let alone the burglary at Blomkvist's residence, the attack on Salander's lawyer, and perhaps the murder of Zarachenko. , Ai Kelinte really couldn't believe it. Things were messy, and Aiklint didn't want to have to get involved.It's just that from the moment Armansky invited him to dinner, he was already involved. What to do now?On the matter of fact, the answer is simple.If what Armansky said was true, Salander was at least deprived of the opportunity to exercise the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution.From a constitutional point of view, this may be out of control: the decision-making direction of political decision-making groups is induced.It also gets to the heart of the responsibility assigned to the Constitutional Safeguards Group.As a policeman, Aikelint is obliged to report to the prosecutor when he learns of a crime.But in fact, the answer is not so simple, and it can even be said that it is not simple at all. Inspector Monika Figerola, despite her rather unusual surname, was born and raised in Dalarna in central Sweden, and her family has lived in Sweden at least since the time of Gustav I in the sixteenth century.She is an easily noticeable woman for several reasons: she is thirty-six years old, blue-eyed, 184 cm tall, with short, light blond, naturally curly hair, not only attractive but also understanding Make yourself more attractive and fit. As a teenager, she had been a standout gymnast and nearly made the Olympic team when she was seventeen.Later, although he gave up orthodox gymnastics, he continued to go to the gym five days a week.The endorphins secreted in her body are like drugs due to too much exercise, making her miserable when she stops exercising.She runs, lifts weights, plays tennis, does karate, and was once obsessed with bodybuilding, but she slowed down her body-beautifying extremes a few years ago, when she was lifting weights for two hours a day.However, she is still very diligent in exercising, and her body is extremely muscular. Some of her poisonous colleagues still call her Mr. Figuelaura.Whenever she puts on a sleeveless T-shirt or summer dress, no one fails to notice her biceps and thick shoulders. In addition, her intelligence also makes many male colleagues timid.She graduated with honors, entered police school at the age of twenty, and then served nine years in the Uppsala police station, studying law in her spare time.She also took a degree in political science, supposedly for fun. Her departure from patrol duty to become a criminal police officer was a major loss to policing the streets of Uppsala.She was first in the Violent Crime Unit, later joined the Special Economic Crime Unit, applied to the Secret Police in Uppsala in 2000, and was transferred to Stockholm in 2001.At first, he worked in anti-secretory work, but was appointed by Aiklint almost immediately to the Constitutional Protection Group.He happened to be acquainted with Figuelaura's father, and had been following her development for the past few years. When it was finally decided that something must be done about Armansky's message, Aiklint called Figolaura into his office.She has been in this team for less than three years, that is to say, she is only a pure police officer, not an experienced internal soldier. She was wearing blue skinny jeans, turquoise low-heeled sandals, and an ocean blue jacket that day. "Figolaura, what are you doing now?" "We're chasing Suna's grocery store robbery." The secret police usually don't waste their time investigating grocery robberies, but Figuelaura and his five officers are in charge of political crimes, relying most heavily on computers linked to the regular police department's reporting system.Reports to any police precinct in Sweden are almost always sent to the computers of the Figelora department.The software scans each report and responds to 310 key words, such as nigger, flathead, swastika, immigration, anarchism, Hitler salute, Nazi, National Democracy, traitor, pro Jewish or pro-nigger or whatever.Whenever such keywords appear, the report is printed and reviewed. The Constitutional Safeguards Group publishes an annual report, "Threats to National Security," which provides the only reliable data on political crimes based on reports received by local police departments.In the Suna store robbery, the computer responded to three sets of keywords: immigrants, armbands, and niggers.Two masked men robbed an immigrant-owned store at gunpoint, taking 2,780 crowns and a pack of cigarettes.One of the robbers was wearing a mid-length jacket and a Swedish flag armband, while the other yelled "fuck you nigger" several times at the shopkeeper and forced him to lie on the ground. That was enough to prompt Figelora's team to launch a preliminary investigation into whether the robbers had ties to Varmland's neo-Nazi gang and whether the robbery could be classified as a racial crime.If so, the incident is likely to be included in the annual statistics, as well as European statistics compiled by the United Nations Center in Vienna. "I'm going to give you a difficult task." Aikelint said: "This matter may get you into big trouble, or it may ruin your future." "I'm all ears." "But if it goes well, you can take a big step towards a bright future. I want to transfer you to the action team of the Constitutional Protection Group." "Excuse me, but the Constitutional Protection Unit does not have an action team." "Yes." Ai Kelinte said: "It was established this morning. The current team member is you." "Understood," Figuelaura seemed hesitant. "The task of the Constitutional Security Group is to defend the Constitution against so-called 'domestic threats', which are mostly those on the far left or the far right. But what if the threat to the Constitution comes from our own organization?" For the next half hour he told her what Armansky had said the night before. "Where are these words from?" Figuelaura asked after listening. "The focus is on the content of the message, not the source." "I mean do you think the source is reliable?" "The source is absolutely reliable. I have known this person for many years." "It all sounds a little... How should I put it? It's unbelievable." "Isn't it? It's like something out of a spy novel." "what do you want me to do?" "From now on, put down other tasks. Your job, your only job, is to investigate the truth of this matter. You must prove or refute these statements one by one, and then report directly to me alone." "I see now what you mean when you say I'm going to be in trouble." "But in case it's true ... even if it's only partially, we have a constitutional crisis." "Where do you want me to start?" "Start with the easy ones. Read Björk's report and identify those who are said to be following Blomkvist. According to my sources, the car was registered to Morrison, a resident of Police officers on Vitangi Road in Wellingby. Photographs taken by Blomkvist photographers also show a younger, blond man who has yet to be identified." Figuolaura listened and took notes. "Then do a background check on Gulbo. I've never heard the name, but my sources believe he has ties to the secret police." "That is to say, someone in the National Security Bureau found a seventy-eight-year-old man to kill a long-ago spy. I really don't believe it." "Go and find out anyway. No one but me can know a little bit of your whole investigation. Before you take any action, report to me. I don't want any ripples in the water, nor Don't hear any signs of trouble." "What a huge task, how can I do it alone?" "It won't be just one person, you just check first. If you say you didn't find anything after checking, then it's okay. If you find anything that matches what my source described, we'll decide on the next step. " Figuelaura used her lunch break to lift weights at the police gym.Then bring back a lunch of black coffee, meatball sandwiches and beetroot salad to the office.After she closed the door and cleared the table, she began to read Bjork's report while eating a sandwich. She also reviewed the correspondence between Bjork and Dr. Tyler Polian in the appendix, and took note of every name and event in the report that required verification.Two hours later, she got up and went to the coffee machine to pour another cup of coffee.It is a custom within the National Security Agency to lock the door when leaving the office. The first thing she checked was the file number.She called the archives office, and the other party replied that the report with this document number could not be found.Next up was querying the media archives, which turned out to be a little better.On that fateful day in 1991, several evening papers and one morning paper reported that a person had been seriously injured in a vehicle fire on Runda Road.The victim of the accident was a middle-aged man who was not named.An evening newspaper wrote that, according to eyewitnesses, it was a young girl who deliberately set the fire on fire. Björk, who wrote the report, was a real person. He was a senior official of the immigration team. He recently took sick leave and died not long ago. He committed suicide. The Personnel Department had no idea what Bjork was doing in 1991, and the file was stamped "Top Secret," even with other NSA colleagues.This is also customary. In addition, it was easily established that in 1991 Salander lived with her mother and twin sister in Ronda Road, and for the next two years was admitted to St. Stephen's Children's Mental Hospital.At least in these parts, the dossier matches what the report says. Tyler Polion, now a well-known psychiatrist and a regular on television, worked at St. Stephen's in 1991 and is now a senior doctor at the hospital. Figuelaura then called the deputy director of personnel. "We at the Constitutional Safeguards Unit are doing an analysis and need to assess someone's credibility and general mental condition. I would like to consult a psychiatrist or other specialist who can handle classified information and I was referred to Peter Taylor Dr. Leon, I wonder if he can be hired." It took a while to get a response. "Dr. Tyler Polian has done several outside consultations for the NSA. He has cleared security clearances, and you can discuss classified information with him without too much depth. But before you go to him, you have to follow the procedures, your superiors. It must be approved and then formally requested to give you access to Dr. Tyler Polian." Her heart sank.She just confirmed something that very few people know.Tyler Polian did have dealings with the NSA. She put down the report and turned her attention to the other information Aiklint had given her.She scrutinized the photographs of the two men who were said to have followed Blomkvist out of the Kopa House on May 1. The gray Volvo's license plate is clearly visible in the photo, and the owner of the car was found to be Yoran Mortensen after consulting the supervision office's information.Then I got confirmation from the Personnel Department of the National Security Bureau that this person was an employee of the bureau.Her heart sank even deeper. Mo Tiansen belongs to the bodyguard group, is a bodyguard, and is also one of several police officers responsible for the prime minister's security on formal occasions.For the past few weeks, he had been on loan to the anti-interruption unit, and his leave began on April 10, a few days after Zarachenko and Salander were admitted to Sogenska Hospital.However, such temporary job assignments are not uncommon and can make up for shortages in emergency situations. Next, Figelora called the deputy head of the anti-interference group. She knew this person and had worked under him when she was in the anti-interference group for a short period of time.Is Mo Tiansen busy with something important?Can you borrow him to do a survey for the Constitutional Protection Group? The deputy head of the anti-interruption group was very confused.Inspector Figerola must have made a mistake, Mo Tiansen was not transferred to the Anti-Intermediary Team.Feel sorry. Figuolaura stared at the microphone in a daze for two minutes.The personal security team thought that Mo Tiansen was on loan to the anti-intermediary team, but the anti-intermediary team said that they never borrowed him.Assignments like this must be approved by the Secretary-General.She was about to pick up the phone and make a call, but pulled back just in time.If the personal security team loaned Mo Tiansen, it meant that the Secretary-General must have approved it.But Mo Tiansen is not in the anti-intermediary group, the secretary-general must know.If Mo Tiansen was loaned out to a department that followed reporters, the Secretary-General must also know about it. Aiklint told her: No ripples are allowed.To mention this matter to the Secretary-General is probably throwing a big stone into the pond. Erica sits at a desk in a glass cage.It was 10:30 on a Monday morning, and she had just poured a cup of coffee from the coffee machine in the lounge, and she needed it so much.The first few hours of the working day were fully occupied by meetings. In the first 15 minutes, Deputy Editor-in-Chief Frederickson reported the general itinerary of the day.Losing faith in Home, she relied more and more on Frederiksson's judgment. The second was a one-hour meeting with Bosher, the chairman, Christ Selber, the newspaper's financial director, and Ulf Frodin, the budget director, to discuss the slump in advertising and the lackluster retail sales.Both the budget director and the treasurer decided to cut the newspaper's general expenses. "This year we barely made it through the first season thanks to a slight uptick in advertising and the retirement of two senior, well-paid staff at the beginning of the year. Those two positions have not been filled," Frodin said. A small deficit. But the free newspapers Metropolis and Stockholm Stadt are taking our ad dollars in Stockholm and I expect a big loss in the third quarter." "Then how should we respond?" Boshe asked. "The only option is to cut the budget. We haven't fired anyone since 2002. But before the end of this year, 10 people have to go." "Which positions?" Erica asked. "We've got to go 'scratch the cheese', shave a little here, a little there. There are currently six and a half positions in sports, which should be reduced to five full-time positions." "As far as I know, the sports section is overwhelmed. What you're proposing now means we'll cut the sports section." Frodin shrugged. "I'd be happy to hear other suggestions." "I don't have any better advice, but here's the principle: If you cut staff, you have to run a smaller paper, and if you run a smaller paper, you'll have fewer readers and the same number of advertisers." "A vicious cycle," Selber said. "I was hired to reverse this downward trend," Erica said. "I see my role as taking drastic steps to change the style of the paper and make it more attractive to readers. If you have to lay off staff, I can't do that." Turning to Boshe, he said, "How much more blood can the newspaper shed? How much more damage can we bear?" Boshe pouted. "Since the early 1990s, the "Swedish Morgan Post" has eaten a lot of money. Our stock market has dropped by almost 30% compared to ten years ago. Most of these funds are used to invest in IT. The payout is also substantial." "I heard that the Swedish Morgan Post developed its own text editing system AXT. How much did it cost?" "The development cost is about five million crowns." "Why do newspapers go to the trouble of developing their own software? There are already inexpensive commercial programs on the market." "Well, Erica... maybe it is. It was preached by our former IT director. He said it would be cheaper in the long run, and we could sell the rights to other newspapers as well." "Anyone buy it?" "Actually, there are. A local newspaper in Norway bought them." "As it turned out," Erica said coldly, "we're still sitting here with old computers from five or six years ago..." "There's no way you're going to spend money on a new computer next year," Frodin said. The discussion went on and on like this.Erica found herself dismissed by Frodin and Selber every time she protested.For them, cutting the budget is the most important thing, which is understandable from the standpoint of the budget director and financial director, but she, the newly appointed editor-in-chief, cannot accept it.What annoyed her most was when she made a comment and they dismissed it with a benevolent smile, making her feel like a teenager taking a quiz.Although nothing inappropriate was said, their attitude towards her was almost comically rigid.Your pretty head shouldn't be bothered with complicated things, little girl. The Boshe was of little help.He just watched from the sidelines, letting the other attendees do the talking, though he didn't give her the same sense of superiority. She sighed and turned on the computer to receive the mail. There were nineteen new emails, four of which were spam, trying to sell Viagra to her; Four dollars; "Bestiality, the most exciting sex in the universe"; and a subscription to fashion.nu, the nude fashion newsletter.The tide of garbage never subsided, no matter how many things she tried, she couldn't stop it.The other seven were so-called "Nigerian swindle letters," in which the widow of a former bank president in Abu Dhabi offered her a large sum of money if she sponsored a small amount of capital. There were also morning memos, lunch break memos, three from Fredliesen reporting the latest developments in the day's headlines, and one from an accountant who wanted to meet with her to discuss her move from Millennium to Morgan Post. There was a salary change after the newspaper, and there was also a letter from the dentist informing her of the appointment date for the quarterly regular checkup.As soon as she checked the schedule, she realized she couldn't do it that day because a major editorial meeting was scheduled. Then she opened the last letter, which was sent from [email protected], and the subject line read "To: Editor-in-Chief".She put down the coffee cup slowly. Bitch!Who do you think you are bitch.Don't think that you can come here to dominate.Someone's going to stick a screwdriver in your cunt, bitch!You better disappear quickly. Erika raised her head and searched for News Editor-in-Chief Home.He wasn't in his seat, and he wasn't seen in the editorial room.She looked at the sender, then picked up the phone and dialed IT manager Peter Fleming. "Morning, Peter. Who is using the account [email protected]?" "This is not a valid account in the newspaper." "I just received an email from this account." "It's fake. Is there a virus in the email?" "I don't know, at least the antivirus software didn't respond." "That's good. The address doesn't exist, but it's easy to fake a plausible one. There are sites on the web that allow people to send anonymous emails." "Is it possible to trace this kind of mail?" "It's almost impossible, even if the person is stupid enough to send it from his own computer. You may be able to trace the server by IP address, but if he is using an account such as Hotmail, the tracking will not be successful." After Erika thanked him, she thought for a while.This is not the first time she has received threatening emails or messages from lunatics, but this one is clearly aimed at her new job as editor-in-chief. I don’t know if some psychopath read the news about her and Moreland’s death, or posted The client is in this building. Figuelaura racked her brains to figure out what to do with Gulbo.One advantage of being in the constitutional protection group is that she has the right to obtain police reports for almost all crimes in Sweden that may be related to racial discrimination or politics.Strictly speaking, Zarachenko is an immigrant, and her responsibilities also include tracing violence against foreign-born people to determine whether the crime involves racial discrimination.Therefore, she has the right to intervene in the investigation of Zarachenko's murder to find out whether Gurbo, the known murderer, is affiliated with any racist organization, or whether anyone heard him utter racist words during the murder.She looked up the report, saw the letters to the Attorney General, found that in addition to slander and personal attacks, there were words such as pro-niggers and traitors. It was already five o'clock in the afternoon.After locking all the data in the safe, shutting down the computer, and rinsing the coffee mug, Figuolaura clocked out.She walked quickly to a fitness center in St. Eric's Square and spent an hour doing some simple strength training. When it was over, she returned to her one-bedroom apartment on rue de Pontone, took a shower, and had a late but sumptuous dinner.She had wanted to call Danielle Morland, who lived three blocks down the street.He is a master woodworker and a fitness instructor, and has been her fitness partner on and off for three years.They have also had sex in pure friendship in recent months. For her, having sex was almost as satisfying as a vigorous workout at the gym, but as a mature woman in her thirties, no, it should be said that she was in her late forties, Figuelaura began to think that maybe she should find a stable partner, Make longer-term living arrangements.It might even be time to have a baby.But not with Mogrand. Finally, she made sure that she didn't want to see anyone tonight, so she took a book of ancient history to bed.