Girl in the Shadows (Shadows 2)

Westington to join us.

"Might jolt your memory a bit. Mrs.

Westington," he added.

"If I ever want my memory jolted. I'll put my hand in an electric socket," she told him, and he

laughed.

Although she complained about it. I could see

her look of satisfaction when Echo and I followed

Trevor out to the plant.

"As I told you. Echo knows a lot more about

the wine-making process than Mrs. Westington

thinks," Trevor told me. "She's too full of curiosity to

be ignored,"

The building the plant was housed in was

immaculate. I could see how proud of it Trevor was. "After we separate the stems from the grape

berries." he began. "the skins are broken to free the

juice. The mixture of juice, skins, seeds, and pulp is

called must."

We followed him about as he explained. Every

once in a while. I glanced at Echo and saw she was

doing an odd thing. She was signing to herself,

thinking aloud, and what she was doing was repeating

what Trevor was telling me, but repeating it from

memory.

Tyler's right about her. I thought. She is very

bright and she's not being permitted to develop as she

should. She's like a bird kept in too small a cage to

exercise her ability to fly. Do I dare try to convince Mrs. Westington of this, convince her to put Echo in a real school? Once she entered, there would be no reason for me to stay. It was selfish to think that. but I

couldn't help it.

"And as you can see here,' Trevor went on.

"yeast converts sugar to alcohol and carbon dioxide.