Angie took the bedroom at the very top of the house. It had two deep window seats that provided a view of the campus. It had ancient wallpaper of young ladies in hoop skirts with pink parasols and bead-board wainscoting. It had an air conditioner the size of a small refrigerator that hummed sweetly and belched a long, cold stream of air.

For the last week Angie had been too busy to do much thinking; she should have fallen asleep without any trouble at all, and yet she sat wide awake, her feet tucked under her on the window seat. She could hear Rivera and Tony downstairs, arguing while they finished unloading the van, a duty she was exempt from as she had packed it to start with.

Outside her windows Ogilvie was so still, though she had opened the window to listen. In the distance she heard the sound of a radio tuned to a talk show, the voices indistinct, cajoling, indignant, amused. At two in the morning Hoboken was as alive—more alive, sometimes—than it was at noon; here it was full dark at ten. Somewhere out in that dark John Grant was reading or watching television or talking on the telephone.

The best thing would be to get right to work. Get set up, start blocking out a shooting schedule, lining up people to interview, places to visit, get acquainted with the facilities on campus, go grocery shopping. After two or three days of running full out, then it would be time to see Miss Zula, and after that was taken care of, John Grant.

Then she would be able to smile at him and shake his hand and say something just friendly enough to set his mind at rest. She was here for the work, and nothing else. Given a few days, she would figure out a way to tell him that. She might even come to believe it herself.

FIVE

Ogilvie Bugle

NEWS ABOUT TOWN

Mr. Harmond Ogilvie, Chairman of the Ogilvie College Board of Regents, tells us that the university has brought a company of three documentary filmmakers to town for an extended stay. Angeline Mangiamele, Rivera Rosenblum, and Anthony Russo of Tied to the Tracks Films (Hoboken, NJ) are newly arrived to begin production of a film about the life and work of our own Miss Zula Bragg. They will be staying at Ivy House, and working out of offices in the English department on campus. The Regents ask that the good citizens of Ogilvie extend every courtesy to our guests and cooperate with them as they go about their work. If you have a story or memory about Miss Zula you’d like to share, please stop by the public library and write it down in the memory book the filmmakers have made available for that purpose, or contact them at Ivy House.