" Go on, I am curious to know two things." What are they, your excellency?" What became of this little boy? for I think you told me it was a boy, M. B...rtuccio." No excellency, I do not recollect telling you that." I thought you did; I must have been mistaken." No, you were not, for it was in reality a little boy. But your excellency wished to know two things; what was the second?" The second was the crime of which you were accused when you asked for a confessor, and the Abbe Busoni came to. I don’t know what happened but something must have happened that was awful. A year later she came back home and it was as if the life had been drained out of her. I thought she was sick and she was but it was a sickness of the soul. She wouldn’t tell me what happened although I’ve asked. She shrugs her shoulders and says it doesn’t matter. It’s only recently that I’ve seen that spark in her eyes again.’ ‘She said she was waiting for a phone call from her publisher,’ I said. ‘Yes. She now does. Rumor had it I wasn’t the first actor she’d gone out with and probably wasn’t the exclusive one. We had an open relationship. At least, that’s the way I interpreted it.I left for Portland in the fall so we didn’t see too much of each other over the winter. She came up to Portland for a weekend a couple of times. Before I headed for Portland that year, I was told I needed to choose one theatre or the other as they were both moving to year-round schedules. Daphne didn’t really play a part in my. We were usually closer to each other and realized our temptation for each other. Sometimes she would give more sweet views of her beautiful body. She would be scratching at her pretty boobs or rubbing her groin, always staring at me while doing all those. Sometimes she would be scratching her armpits. But when our parents were around, she wouldn’t do anything. I was very excited for the very chance of being alone at home with her. It all happened at the time when i had completed my degree.