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for whatever was its agreed percentage. Yet I have this irritant in my eye that there's more in the data than the ORS software brings out.
    "What I would really like is for you, Caterina, to exploit your analytical and pattern matching skills, like when you identified the connection between Weizmann, Michele and Inma."
    "Who?" asked Emilia.
    "They were among the participants in the HolyPhone work in Rome that we were doing," responded Caterina curtly before Davide could reply. She wanted to impress on him that she'd not told Emilia anything. "Anyhow, Davide, I'm beginning to run out of steam. Do you think that we could continue this tomorrow, perhaps if we go to your Campo or over a meal?"
    "No problem. Off you go. I hope you sleep well and the jet lag begins to subside. Oh, remind me tomorrow to tell you about running into Inma."
    Caterina left. Emilia chose not to follow. Caterina sighed to herself, hoping Emilia would behave.
    "I won't ask more about ORS because there's no point in having to repeat everything for Caterina tomorrow. But, Davide, what was this Rome thing all about? Caterina has always been cagey and says little about what happened."
    Davide reflected. He was not entirely sure if Emilia was asking about Caterina, himself, or about their work on the HolyPhone. He decided prudence, and discretion, were the best options, especially as he had no real sense for Emilia. Caterina he knew he could trust. Well, in some things at least.
    "We can't talk about what we did in Rome. I'm contractually bound to confidentiality and Caterina by Interpol. Sorry. I realise it must be frustrating when we mention people you don't know. But that's the way it has to be."
    "Okay, okay. I can't say I'm not disappointed. I'd hoped you might open up when she won't. Clearly you have a conspiracy of silence."
    Emilia smiled, trying hard to take the sting out of her words. Underneath she was more than annoyed. All those hours teasing Caterina had still produced nothing of substance. "What you were describing this evening intrigues me. I look forward to more."
     

 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    CHAPTER THREE
     
     
    Progress
     
     
    Saturday: Casa de Campo, Madrid
     
    Emilia flashed a smile at the waiter who immediately dropped what he was doing to attend her.
    " Nos cobra por favor. "
    " Tres noventa, Señorita ."
    Emilia paid. "Oh I do like the sound of being called Señorita ! It makes me feel young."
    She favoured David with an almost lecherous grin designed to annoy Caterina. It succeeded.
    They exited the café in silence, each considering their discussion of the past several minutes. Davide led the way outside into the Casa de Campo and what seemed more like semi-desert scrub than a real park. There was more sand than grass but the green of the many trees offered a cooling contrast.
    Caterina debated with herself. Davide had, as usual, captured her interest. It was a recurring and irritating habit. He managed it well, without even seeming to try. What was it about him?
    Her immediate problem was not Davide, however, but Emilia. Did she tell Davide what she had made Emilia keep quiet about the previous evening?
    She listened with half an ear to Davide and Emilia chatting. It was small talk. Emilia seemed to be behaving and not flirting overly much. In any case Davide was not responding, which pleased her.
    On the one hand, Caterina thought, working with Davide at ORS would give her proximity to him, and without Emilia. Though it would be in a professional setting she thought it might be possible to rescue or rekindle what she had messed up in Italy, if she wanted to. Davide did not seem hostile or offended or hurt. He had even thought of her before she had emailed him. But ... The problem was that what he was describing likely also needed some other skills beyond her technological ones, like accounting. She was not the expert there. Emilia was.
    Should she tell Davide now or later? If she told him now he