Mrs. Smith asked Ned to help her with a recruitment function. The Scholarship Committee had recruited a limited group of freshman college transferees and was staging an orientation event off facility. The private event was being held at a resort hotel and Gillian, a TWA Board member, would attend as the guest lecturer. She would initiate the new candidates to the Total Woman Academy philosophy, curriculum, standards and approaches to a total college education. In addition, Quinella, an advanced senior, would provide an informal but experienced student's view in a question and answer meet and greet session.
Ned would accompany Quinella by limousine and lend a helping hand to her efforts however he could. They departed in the afternoon and arrived at the resort in the evening. Ned and Quinella were ensconced in a suite with two bedrooms. After dinner, the two retired to their suite and after small talk, went to their separate bedrooms for the night.
Ned awoke in the early hours to soft light glowing from the main room. Quinella was standing in the doorway. She moved toward his bed and ambled, on hands and knees, over the covers and lay by Ned's side. "I can't sleep", she murmured and laid her head on the edge of his pillow. Quinella was naked.