Then Sue's voice brought me out of my reverie.“Coffee, Julie?”“Well, er… yes, yes …”Sue winked at me, then turned to Colin and in a very s...arp tone said shortly, “youheard”. At once he bowed low again, said “Yes, Ma'am” in a trembling voice, and scurriedout as quickly as he had come. I watched him go, and noticed that his bum and thighswere quite heavily marked with long, thin, red welts. She must have caned him, Irealised suddenly. I had heard about that sort of thing going on, high-court. ."For a moment, I simply stared after her. Why the hell am I bringing Arie into this? And why the hell did she agree? My fuzzy brain glitched and flickered and I couldn't think of anything.Then I started to push my way through again.When I got to the center, I gave enough of a glance to confirm that, yes, this was the Molest Faith club; then I looked for Arie. She was standing not too far from me with a stricken look on her face. "I should have gone for Meredith," she said."I... Don't think. ”Da Lee laughed as she thought about it. Shaking her head, she said, “We were just five people afraid of life and other people.”“Yeah, what a mess we were. Now Paul is going to get married and I think that Jeff is going to ask that nurse of his to marry him,” commented Lilly, feeling like her typical self again. Her identity of Shao Lee faded as she turned to the present.Dolly heard the news about Paul and broke out into a big grin. Excited, she asked, “Paul has asked her to marry him?”“Yes,. He explained that it got lonely on the road and wondered if I was available to keep him company on occasions. His name was John and he was very well spoken, asking me if I was a prostitute without saying those exact words. I smiled at him and told him that we might be able to work something out and then we began talking again as I finished my meal and he drank his coffee. Afterwards, we were both standing near his semi truck, smoking cigarettes, as I told him that I had never seen the inside of.