She quickly straightened up and laughed, obviously getting a kick out of being a tease.I said to her, "This isn't right, Ma. In a bar you wouldn't be ...earing a big blouse like that." She pretended to be shocked and said, "What are you suggesting, young man? I'm showing you how to dance, not giving an anatomy lesson." I didn't want her to stop, so I backed off a bit, "I just mean couldn't you tie your shirt instead of having it buttoned?" She seemed to like this idea and turned her back to me. " One more difficulty is that any new assistant to Agent Ripley should betotally familiar with Operation Swan Song and its objectives. There arejust not that many people who fit even a subset of thesequalifications."Grant Williamson spoke "But, Agent Tanaka, we're assuming that, becauseyou've gone to the trouble of calling this meeting, you've come up witha way to get around the obstacles you've just outlined." Yes, Sir, I believe I have. I think, with a little bit of luck, theSwan Song. "Heather snorted. "You seem to have this problem at all times of the day and night, and as much as I'd like to help you, I don't want you to be late for your first day of work." Chris had turned eighteen and this was to be his first day of work at a summer job before he started college.Chris shook his head. "I've got plenty of time." He picked up the PDA. "All I have to do is sign in on this thing - it has a wireless Internet connection - and it tells the company that I'm ready to go. After. I thought to myself that I could easily have avoided this caning, and still wasn’t quite sure why I hadn’t. My perfect record at the school was ruined. Though, to be honest, a reckless part of me was quite pleased about that. Sometimes I hated being Miss Goody Two-shoes!Thwack! The next stroke landed on my bare bottom.‘Arghhhh!’ I let go of the desk and half-stood up.I hadn’t been ready for that one. And it was on my bare bottom too! It was only a tiny, thin piece of fabric, but when it was.