We parted with no more than a brief good-bye. Georgie still looked terrified, and I couldn’t help wondering whether she was already regretting our meeting. If she could just hold fast to my plans, she would soon be able to begin a new life—without a guilty secret. I stood and watched Georgie disappear down the road. A moment later Halley and Sebastian came around the corner, and together we walked back to Holborn station. From there we caught a train to Waterloo and then another to Hampton Court Palace. As the trains whizzed along the tracks I told Sebastian about my meeting with Georgie. We also discussed, as best we could, Sebastian’s role at the show. But there were a few other models on the train out of Waterloo—we were all walking for Jorge—so for the sake of discretion, I had to drop the case for a while and listen to the snippets of modeling conversation that wafted toward me. “I’m thinking of going to Japan to model for the summer… Do you think it could be fun?
