I always thought Lane had potential for seeing that he was a "section man". Maybe later on he too read something that made him better. I don't think he was calculating or anything like that. A while ago someone mentioned they came across a blurb in another book about meeting a couple at a party who were name Lane & Franny Cotterell (sp?). Maybe they became enlighten together, got married, had kids, Franny became PTA president in Westchester County, N.Y. and on warm summer evenings they sit on the deck with a lovely little Merlot and remember the good times when all they cared about was finding enlightenment or something like that and wasn't it easier then as now it is so hectic driving the kids around and going to fund raising events for the schools, etc., etc. Patti