“It was the strangest thing,” she said. “She recognized me immediately when I came in. She said—she said that she’d known my father since his college days. And my mother, too.” “What?” Felix cried. “Ramona Wu and your father, and mother, were old friends?” “And a couple others, all from their university days. There were seven of them in total,” Nell answered. “I couldn’t believe it either.” “Did she tell you anything useful about the map?”
