She heard the train whistle in the distance, and she looked at her watch. 6:59. The train was pulling into the station.
She rose to her feet and looked around frantically. Something terrible has happened to him. He's had an accident. He's in the hospital.
A few minutes later, Ashley stood there watching the train to Chicago pull out of the station, taking all her dreams with it.
She waited another half hour and tried to telephone Jim again. When there was still no answer, she slowly headed home, desolate.
At noon, Ashley and her father were on a plane to London. She had attended a college in London for two years,
and when Ashley decided she wanted to be involved in working with computers, she applied for the prestigious MEI Wang Scholarship
for Women in Engineering at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She had been accepted,
and three years later, she was recruited by the Global Computer Graphics Corporation.
In the beginning, Ashley had written half a dozen letters to Jim Cleary, but she had torn them all up.
His actions and his silence had told her only too clearly how he felt about her.
Her father's voice jarred Ashley back to the present. “You're a million miles away. What are you thinking about?”
Ashley studied her father across the table. “Nothing.” Dr. Patterson signaled the waiter,
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