The Attraction of Quent and Lorraine

Lorraine sensed that Greg was watching Quent like an anthropologist studying his type even as he enjoyed Quent's flamboyant energy and jokes. Their talk was wholly innocent and friendly but they couldn't stop smiling whenever their eyes met. She told him about the Garrison School she'd attended in Malta and Germany and called herself a forces brat. And he told her about his research in Mali on the country's rural communes and its rich corpus of customary law. He explained that he'd left because of the war and the pressure once fieldwork became impossible to supply analysis almost as an arm of international intelligence which wasn't what he'd gone into anthropology for.