He sighed. Actually, he knew where some of the impulse came, but getting on the wrong side of the White House Chief of Staff would not be a good idea. “Harvey, please tell Chief of Staff Darlington that his sister has stepped out for a few hours.” Which wouldn’t begin to cover it if Daniel decided something inappropriate was going on, which there wasn’t. He was merely taking a beautiful lady to somewhere warm, and a public concert. And he decided to stop thinking about that either way before he was turning in circles worse than a helicopter with a shot-up tail rotor. When the elevator reached the main lobby they picked up two more guards. Their dark suits and coats looked like dark blots on the explosion of cheer that had struck the Residence earlier in the day. Paper snowflakes the siz