The Boy was flustered that his girlfriend had immediately left him when another suitor arrived with a bigger box of candy.Fats don""t need your money.There""s no way you can beat him.Nobody""s beat him in fifteen years.He""s the best in the country." Unheeding he warning, the two play pool and wait for the prompt arrival of Fats at 8 pm: "He comes in this pool room every night at 8 o""clock on the nose.Suddenly the words fade into silence.A cloud comes into her eyes and they go blank.She""s somewhere else, away from me, someone I don""t know.I call her, she doesn""t even hear me.Then, with a long sigh, she""s back.Looks at me brightly, doesn""t even know she""s been away, can""t tell me where or when.Scottie: How often does this happen?Elster: More and more in the past few weeks.And she wanders - God knows where she wanders.I followed her one day, watched her coming out of the apartment, someone I didn""t know.She even walked a different way.Got into her car and drove off to Golden Gate Park.Five miles.Sat by the lake, staring across the water at the pillars that stand on the far shore.You know, Portals of the Past.Sat there a long ime without moving.I had to leave, get back to the office.When I got home that evening, I asked her what she""d done all day.She said she""d driven out to Golden Gate Park and sat by the lake, that""s all.Scottie: Well.(Getting up.)Elster: The speedometer on her car showed that she""d driven ninety-four miles.Where did she go? I""ve got to know, Scottie, where she goes and what she does before I get involved with doctors.Dave and mine and yours"), and also shared her beliefs in mysticism and reincarnation.She compared her life""s span and reincarnation history with Dave""s:Dave""s got a much higher developed soul than either you or me.Meanwhile, Carina fled into an astronomy shop (with a sign reading: "NO DOGS NO WOMEN"), a nautical instrument store where she bought a pocket-sized chronometer (to study an impending "blood moon") from the astonished male store-owner.