Since You've Been Gone

"I admire your courage, Miss, er -?"

"Trench, Sylvia Trench. And your name is?"

(With sarcasm): "Bond, James Bond."

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Everyone knows what gets said here!

You see... Sylvia Trench is the name you need to remember; but you don't. And what's more, the delivery is the important part, as well as the approach: 'I admire your courage, Miss -?'

There's wa-a-a-ay not enough people who consistently read here for me to open out fulsomely on some important current, key issues. You don't want some significant fact to disappear beneath the waves of limited marketing, and then people later on say, oh well it was out there in the public...

El Cliffo - the Big One - ain't coming just yet anyway, so you don't really need me to announce anything too much ahead of the curve. So why not just ride with the benign, silly, frivolous diversions...

Just for the moment.

My choice for 'Sylvia Trench?'
Real proper evening dress and all

So, the proposition (story proposition) thus far, is this: Sylvia Trench (Bond's actual love interest, but that was never actually played out in the follow-up movies for a variety of reasons), is - for the sake of the story - let's say the daughter of some highly-placed, and sensitively-placed, government official or private corporation boss, maybe banker. And she goes completely missing for months, many months, perhaps six months. And then just as suddenly, she re-appears, and the security intelligence people are swung into the show to uncover where she went, what she did, and why. She has little or no memory of the missing time, and she re-appears as a slightly changed personality, and her family are very concerned. 

What's it all about? Is it sinister? Of course, it must be sinister; there can be no doubt.

What has changed about Sylvia Trench... Well, for one thing, Sylvia Trench is more seductive, more worldly, more knowledgeable, about just about everything, than even the infamous James Bond himself. Can you image such a thing!

I'm stuck with the name, I'm afraid. It was, however unfortunately, the name Fleming employed for this seductress, and we're stuck with it now.

Or are we?