When I reach her on the phone - on the day of her return from a trip to Paris - she is charmingly polite but adamant she will not see me. 'I'm afraid this is all too painful, just too painful. People are using Enron to trash this city. It's too bad.' She did indeed know Lay and Skilling, and she confesses that like most well-off Houston-ians, she lost money on her Enron stock. Before she politely puts the phone down on me, she says enigmatically, 'The press has got it all wrong - it'll all come out in time.'