Patience was looking in the mirror. She was holding a long dress in one hand and a very short one in the other. 'Which one should I wear tonight?' she asked Sally.

'Wear the long one at church, the short one at the beach. I'm taking you shopping,' said Sally.

In the end, they found the perfect dress that was neither long nor short.

Patience was waiting for Lone in the Japanese restaurant. She was watching the fish swimming in a big fish tank next to the table. Her face was close to the glass.

'I'm hungry,' she thought.

'Pretty,' said Lone behind her.

'Thank you,' said Patience.

'Well, you are pretty,' said Lone, 'but I meant the fish.'

Patience went red.

They sat down at the table and ordered dinner. 'Have you heard of Catwoman?' he asked as he poured her a drink.

Patience felt cold. 'Yeah,' she said after a moment. 'She carries a whip, doesn't she?'

'She kissed me,' said Lone.

'Really?' said Patience. It was exciting when Lone talked about Catwoman like this. 'I think I'm a little jealous,' she thought. 'How strange.'

'So what do you think about me and Catwoman?' asked Lone.

A waiter arrived and put a huge plate of fish on the table. Patience quickly took a piece of fish and put it in her mouth.

'That depends,' she said. 'Do you like bad girls?'

'I'm a policeman,' he said. 'I put bad people in prison.'

'Perhaps you don't always know who's good and who's bad,' said Patience.

'You're different,' he told her. 'You're special. And I want to know more about you.'

'Do you really?' she asked.

'Yes, I do,' he said.

Lone looked at Patience. She was asleep on the sofa and she looked beautiful. He went to the bathroom for a glass of water.

As he was walking back across the room, he stepped on something hard. It cut his foot. 'Ow!' he said quietly. He didn't want to wake Patience up.

What was it? He picked it up to see. It looked like a diamond claw. Lone looked at it for a moment. Then he began to realise the truth.

'Oh no!' he thought. The cup and the box with 'sorry' on them. The way that Patience had saved the boy on the Ferris wheel. He was beginning to understand everything.

He sat down with his glass of water and tried to think. How could he get proof that Patience and Catwoman were the same person? He looked at the glass. Patience had drunk from the glass last night and left a red lip print on it. And Catwoman had left a red kiss on his nose at the theatre. There was a photo of it at the police station.

Patience woke up. Her mobile was ringing. 'Hello?'