She didn't want me to buy this place said I couldn't make a success of it.

"Every place but this table," the guard in front said.

The place said nothing, really, except that she was rich.

"Everybody's looking to go out of this place in a professional manner," one executive said.

"Some place where no one will ever find her," he said.

Some places have taken my name and said they'd get back to me, but I haven't heard from any of them.

A good place to stay away from, Dennis, my father had said.

"Of what took place, the less said is the better."

"Not many places where a single woman can make $30,000 a year," he said.

"A quiet, beautiful place where there is time to live," she said, as if speaking to herself.