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sell yourself short, darling," Mimi said. "My mother was just an American. And she became a princess. Continue, Cam."

    "All I'm saying is, if he asked you, would you go?"

    "You bet I would," Liz replied too quickly.

    "Then consider it done. I'll ask him to ask you out," Cameron said, leaning back into her gilded chair.

    "You're not serious, are you?" Liz said.

    "He thought you were hot. Parker's an old friend, you're a new friend. I see no reason not to."

    "Cam, you're the best!" Liz said.

    Cameron smiled and glanced at Mimi.

    "Liz," she said, smiling slowly and pouring Liz another glass of wine, "you have to tell us all about your friend Adrienne. She's not one of us, but she's very cool.We really like her--don't we, Mimi?"

    "Yes," Mimi said, leaning closer to Liz. "Such energy."

    "Have just a touch more wine," Cameron said to Liz. "How do you know her?"

    Liz began telling her new friends all about Adrienne. About how the two of them had grown up together, and how they were still best friends.

    "Is Brian her boyfriend?" Mimi asked.

    "Yes," Liz said, sipping her wine. "They've been together for two years."

    "Two years!" Cameron cried, tossing back her head

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    and laughing. "I can barely stand a guy for two weeks!"

    The three girls laughed, and Cameron turned back to Liz. "Seriously," she said, putting her elbows on the table and her head in her hands. "You have to tell us how she does it.What is Brian really like?"

    Cam and Mimi are so cool, Liz thought, and before she realized it, she was revealing the intimate details of her closest friend's private life.

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CHAPTER EIGHT

    today we turn you

    into a goddess

    T he campus of Columbia University swarmed with stu- dents. All over the lawns and paths, grad students and undergraduate students talked, ran to class, and studied under the trees and on the flights of steps to the academic building, which rose like a Greek temple at the center of the university.

    "You've got your notebooks?"Adrienne asked Emma.

    "Yes," Emma replied.

    "You've got your pencils and calculator?"

    "Yes, yes.You can go, Adrienne. I'm fine."

    "All right. Have fun." Adrienne watched the little girl climb the steps to Lewisohn Hall for the Thursday afternoon "Gifted Teen Think Tank" of Columbia University, in which Emma was the only person who was not, in fact, a teen at all.

    "Tania will pick you up at six," she called.

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    "I know," Emma said, irritated, and stomped up the rest of the steps without saying good-bye.

    As soon as the door closed behind her, Adrienne was suddenly sad. She realized that today was actually the last day that she would see Emma. She had finished her two weeks. And what a two weeks this has been!

    Hopping into a cab,Adrienne zipped from the bustling Morningside Heights location of Columbia University across the top of the park and over to Fifth Avenue.When Adrienne had started to work for the Warners in mid- October, it had still been warm. But now, only two weeks later, all the trees were turning brown. She looked up at the limestone curtain of apartment buildings and admired the Metropolitan Museum and the Frick Collection as she sped downtown. She had started to get used to this neigh- borhood and the crazy rich people who lived there.

    I might actually miss them, Adrienne thought, pulling up to 841 Fifth Avenue and getting into the service elevator for the last time. All she had left to do was collect her money.

    Entering the kitchen, Adrienne heard the familiar sound of Mrs. Warner having a meltdown at Tania in the front hall.

    "Oh, Adriana, is that you? Thank God you're here! Please come in," Mrs.Warner called.Adrienne hurried into the front hall. "Could you be an angel and stay on for just

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    another month? The nanny hasn't come from London as expected, and I am just in a bind, bind, bind!