Not doing any P.I. stuff today, Magnum?’ ‘Har, har.’ ‘Really. Why are you here?’ ‘I came to take you to dinner.’ ‘At 3PM? Is there a s...nior citizen special somewhere tonight?’ ‘You are just so full of venom today. I can’t say I don’t like it. I’ve always loved a woman with sass. So, dinner at my place tonight, yeah?’ ‘Holden,’ saying his name still sent shivers up my spine, ‘I can’t go out with you.’ ‘Why?’ he lifted my left hand and ran his thumb along the line where my engagement ring used to. I touch your skin and I have to look at your face to keep reminding me that it's really you. I keep expecting to wake up and find, once again, that it was just a dream.I knew exactly what he meant. This all seemed ethereal. This house, us, our naked bodies, all of it seemed somehow displaced. I glanced out the window and I could see banks of fog drifting against the sand. It was just daylight and the ocean seemed somehow passive in the stillness of the morning. His finger brushed against my. . I try and push myselfalong with my feet, using my stilettos to try and find purchase, but thesuede dress gives too much resistance. I buck my body shifting it along alittle... and I know roughly where the bed is... and I know how slowly I'mgetting there...I need to get up, onto my knees.. but that's going to be soo hard. But..I'm fit.. I can do it, all that tennis has to be worth something right? Ipush up with one foot, and one elbow, slowly slowly tipping myself onto myside.. oh that hurts!. The good chap gave me absolution for my sins and told me repeatedly to come to him to relate all of my future adventures in the garden of debutantes blooming that season with a frenzy of scented flowers and pussy juice easing the bang-bang reality of multiple coupling.I know I said that Rosalind was a bit of a witch and I was not exaggerating the case because her mother was definitely of that persuasion. That is a certainty of which I can attest with absolute unanimity in any court of law. My.