5Startled, I said, “State Department Security interviewed you?”
“Why not? Who knows you better?” She was smiling and the perfect evenness of her teeth reminded me of a fox’s incisors. “But the guy wasn’t from State. Would you believe FBI?”
“FBI.” I couldn’t keep the shock out of my voice.
“You don’t think I’d tell them anything they didn’t already know? But you don’t want the FeeBees to find out you’re zipping over to Europe to meet the Pole, am I right?”
I said, “You’re right.”
“Must be really hung up on this guy. He invite you home to meet his mom yet?”
“Both his parents are dead.”
“An orphan? That’s a problem. You know these old-world types can’t marry without the family’s approval. Maybe he’s got a big brother or something?”
“No such luck,” I said. “There was a half-brother, bu
