“Well then,” I said after coffee, “what say we settle on a place to stay?” “I’ve already got an image of a place,” she said. “Like what?” “Never mind. Get a list of hotels and read off the names in order.” I asked a waiter to bring over the yellow pages and started reading the names listed in the “Hotels, Inns” section. After forty names, she stopped me. “That’s the one.” “Which one?” “The last one you read.” “Dolphin Hotel,” I said. “That’s where we’re staying.” “Never heard of it.” “But I can’t see us staying at any other hotel.”
