"And remember to say 'thank you' and 'you're welcome.' Your manners were never great as a boy, so they might as well be good as a girls."Over enunciat...ng my words, I replied, "Yes, Mother, I understand." For some reason Mother was becoming upset and I didn't know why. She started off calm enough but was now loosing it."And one more thing, try to show some interest in what your date has to say. Ask him questions. Let him talk about himself. Don't hog the conversation. Pretend he's smarter and. "They hit it off perfectly. He asked her why she lived alone in such a large house, and she looked surprised. "You haven't seen some of the other homes round here!" she said. "This is relatively small, but it has to be big enough to hold parties – essential to my work."They went out to dinner, Catherine driving. Over dinner she broached the subject of her latest hit song, which he had called Cassie. He told her the whole story."You going to get her back?" Revenge?" he answered, misunderstanding. She had already been practicing with bananas.Her younger sister, Emmeline, was not unaware of the events taking place next to her. Initially, she had slept through most of them because she was a sound sleeper, but sometimes her mother and sister just couldn't suppress their audible natures when experiencing pleasure, and she could hear it all. She was now almost seven, and starting to lose some of her baby fat. It was a little like a child watching an older sibling playing cards with her. Denise could have told him, or he could have looked in my wallet. So if he was trying to intimidate me that way, it didn't work."What have you done to me?" I croaked."Don't worry, we'll take good care of you. You're the property of the East Canal Brothers now." He produced a no-spill drinks container and held it to my lips. "Here, drink this," he said, "it's only chilled water."I gulped the refreshing liquid down my parched throat, then he deftly removed the saline drip."Now you're drinking,.