Haw often have you been arrested?" Mindy asked me,
her face scrunched up with both disgust and curiosity. "Enough," I said.
"Where is this Posy now?" Teal asked, still
thinking about her. "And what kind of a name is
Posy? I can't see Dr. Foreman naming a daughter
Posy, can you?" she asked me. "I would have
expected something more like Hortense."
"Posy named herself Posy, I think." Mindy said.
"Isn't that what you said. Gia?"
"Yes. I can't remember Dr. Foreman calling her
anything but 'young lady.'
"You never met this Posy. Mindy?" I asked. "No. She was already gone by the time I
arrived, Gia told me all about her."
"Well, what happened to her? Where is she?
Did she graduate or something?" Teal asked Gia. Gia's laugh was thin and maddening,
"Graduate? Yes. I guess it is a sort of graduation when
someone gets out of here, if she gets out of here." She
was silent a moment: then, after glancing at Mindy,
she turned back to Teal and said. "I don't know." "Why not?" Robin asked.
"We
can't be sure. right. Gia?" Mindy said. "What does that mean? Did Posy tell you
something?" I asked Gia,
"It wouldn't have mattered if she had. When she
was first brought here, she told Gia so many different
things, it was obvious she was a habitual liar." "Really?"
Gia nodded. "For the longest time. I didn't
know she had any relationship to Dr. Foreman at all,
much less being her daughter. She never called her or
referred to her as anything but 'Dr. Foreman,' and I
never saw anything warm between them, anything even to suggest they had once lived in the same