Towards the back were those who wanted some background music while they made their moves on members of the opposite sex. It wasn't so jammed that the ...ids couldn't dance, but Hank would be satisfied that we still drew a nice Saturday night crowd. I looked down stage left and there were Carrie and Stacey. Carrie appeared to have more make-up than usual, tight jeans, white shirt. Roscoe had done his thing. Ben did the usual intro, asking who wanted to party and we launched into a rocking number. “It did not make sense to me that I would have to call a stranger even younger than you, Sir or Ma’am and not address you with the same respect. You are above me now in the household as you have always been above me. Your father rightly puts you first before all things. He wanted to protect you from being required to engage with me as a slave as much as possible, but that will not be possible if I live as one in the open and I am sorry about that,” she began.I swallowed as I looked at Lindsay. I was hopeful that we’d talk more easily, and re-establish some of Monday’s comfortableness.I heard the pop of the cork and the soft glugging as she poured. Naomi came back over with two glasses for us and resumed her place sitting with her legs tucked under her on the far end of the sofa.“Thanks”“Cheers” she pushed her glass out to meet mine and they chinked together and then we supped, our eyes fixed on each other like we were sharing a naughty secret.“So would you like me to pose for the. “That means a total of four symbols to mean ësoap’, when one will be enough for now. You expect everyone to follow these four symbols as easily as one symbol?”“No, I don’t suppose so. Not everyone is as clever as you and me, I agree. Fine, we can stick with these starting symbols for now, but in the long term, you are going to have to use all the sounds that make up a word. After all, there are lots of words that start with ës’: storm, sneeze, smack, sea, ship, - oh, that is the ësh’ of.