The Angel

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In the year before she died, Beatrix Rose taught her daughter many things. She taught her how to lie and how to tell when someone else was lying. The benefits of meditation and how it was a useful strategy for enduring long stretches of time without sleep or other comforts. How to detect when she was being followed and how to follow someone without being seen.

She taught her other things, too. For example, how important it was to always arrive first for a rendezvous. It was good manners, for one, but — and this was much more important — the person arriving first for an appointment could control how that appointment unfolded. She could choose the environment: a table where it would be difficult to be eavesdropped on, the seat offering the best view of the ways in and out. An agent did not want the seat that put her back to the door. She certainly did not want to be the person arriving last. It was rude, and most important, it decreased your chances of leaving.

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