Leon - The brave new world of being judged for your ability not your sex. Oh she had had such romantic notions of a life of love and laughter. Dr Robin Mclean listened to the surge of male voices. At thirty-seven she somehow felt there should be more enjoyment to her life than being trapped in a medical conference with her husband. The hotel bar was empty. It would not have mattered to her had it been full, for Patricia Dean was competent, assured, street-wise and ambitious. Barrie McKenzie sat quietly at the back of the lecture hall listening with rapt attention to the tutor who had captivated her from the first lecture. Ainsley - staggered to her feet, wanting to vomit, to heave at nothing except perhaps blood. It had been a long time since she'd eaten; but her only hunger was the gnawing pain of wanting to die.