Chapter Nineteen

Today David was going to again work on his contracts with the young woman whom he had been interrupted by that unusually tall male customer. He was planning to introduce her to some thoughts about opening some bank account with him, but one with very low stakes, somehow. As he waited for her, he pondered upon this, while also finishing the thesis of an art project that he was working on for a museum.

He was still finishing it off when she arrived and told him to stop and take care of her. He didn't, but greeted her in a friendlier manner than that she would be resentful. She stood watching him for over five minutes, until he was sort done with the thesis.

ـِـ It's very smart, isn't is, to pretend as if nothing about your other girls for me?

He stiffened a little.

ـِـ Oh, smart. Well, one might call it that, but ...

She smiled, but ignored his statement.

ـِـ How can you just look as though you were totally innocent all the time?

ـِـ I'm not sure! I didn't know I was, actually.

Now she got curious about him.

ـِـ What do you mean you didn't know it?

ـِـ I mean that I don't feel that there's anything about me that is exactly about innocence, that's why!

She looked at him.

ـِـ How can I trust you on that?!

He hesitated for a moment, then he said;

ـِـ Perhaps we can be sure if we actually work together? I mean you and I could have a bank account that is actually safe! I know a good bank where you and I could deposit so-called some very-low-stake savings of a mutual kind, don't you think?

She examined him a little before saying:

ـِـ Yes, I guess I could try that with you!

ـِـ Great! Let's go there together then! Shall we do it tomorrow, or would you rather go today?

ـِـ Today would be great!

ـِـ Right away? I think I can right now, but we've got to hurry a little, because I have an appointment at two. will you?

ـِـ I will.

ـِـ As a matter of fact, perhaps we should go there at only check it out this time, then if you like it we can go back there and actually make the deposit then. ...

ـِـ OK, she answered him.

Said and done. He put up his closed-for-lunch sign and locked his door behind them, then showed her to the bank where he secretly had a parent working. He asked for an appointment for himself and her with Claire Witherbrant, or wasn't it she who took care of those deposits, he asked.

ـِـ Yes, it's she, said the bank man he had been talking to.

They sat down and waited for about five minutes. Then a blond girl came out and elegantly stretched out her hand.

ـِـ Claire Witherbrant, she said.

ـِـ I'm David, David said, and this is Cecilia. We're hear today only to check prices and such. Now do please take the time with us for that!

ـِـ Yes, of course I will, she answered.

As they were going through the papers, David ran into some formalities about where to put the money at the very safest place. Claire answered him that it was very safe to have them in the bank simply. David then answered that he didn't care to view that as completely safe, but that he had a friend who did. Claire okayed that.

Cecilia seemed to take this as a game he was playing, perhaps for the purpose of scoring on her too. She therefore said to him:

ـِـ David, don't!

He glimpsed her briefly.

ـِـ I didn't!

Cecilia looked jealous. Claire studied her. Now her tone of voice changed. She switched, somehow, from being the presenter of strategies and facts, to being the vulgar kind of seemingly good woman, who somehow does things just to hide that she is sexual.

Claire took a look at David's physique. She then looked to his face and nose, as if to say to it that she was an adequate woman to be taken. Cecilia gripped David and asked if they could go.

ـِـ Yeah, I think we'd better!

She drew a sigh of relief.

Now Claire studied her again. At length she told them:

ـِـ Feel free to go now, but do take care to be coming back to me!

She indicated David when saying it.

ـِـ Oh, I don't have to do that! This deposit is for her and a friend of hers!

Claire looked downwards in disappointment while they left her.