It was in a house owned by an elderly couple, who had been pleased to rent it to a pleasant young man who could help them with chores.Cora had snagged...two magnums of the Champagne and a tub of ice from the hotel wait staff. Now, they were committing oenophilic desecration: sipping the wine from Welch's grape jelly jars, which were what passed for glasses in Gene's household.She had slogged her way through about fifty pages of the heap; all of pad number 1. "Damn, Gene," Cora said, "This is hard. Quentin watched her affectionately. Almost like an uncle taking out his schoolgirl niece to dinner. What an age it seemed already since Melissa had had to play the role of schoolgirl for him!This was another world... and a quite different woman. “There’s something I haven’t’ told you yet, Melissa,” said Quentin, when coffee and liqueurs had been brought to them. Melissa looked up apprehensively. For a moment, there was a f lash of fear in her lovely eyes.“Oh... what’s that?” she asked. The address was in a main shopping street. It cannot be right but, with nothing else to do, I decided to check it out. Maybe buy a book. I got the bus to save having to find a car park and went into town. I checked the address and decided to walk on the other side of the street. When I got opposite the address I saw two shops. One looked vacant with the front windows painted over. The one next door looked like some sort of second hand shop. As I looked the door opened and a woman came out.. ” Sandra said sternly. “No we won’t Lisa. It is going this way. I told you it’s my rules now.” Sandra looked at her watch. “It’s 5 O’clock so get ready for bed, lights out.” “No way Mum,” Lisa blasted back. But froze when she saw how angry her Mum looked. “Right then, that gets you a spanking.” She saw the look of concern on her daughters face and continued, “Tomorrow morning at 8 O’clock I will give you 50 spanks with the hairbrush.” Lisa swallowed and Sandra continued, “50 spanks is from now.