Even now, hours after the event had occurred, she remembered how it felt for Mister Williamson's belt to smack against her ass. She remembered how the...cool leather had stung whenever it made contact with her skin. What surprised her the most was that the part that had turned her on the most was how Mister Williamson hadn't even hesitated. He had commanded her and taken control of her, heedless of her own desires. "What the fuck is wrong with me", she wondered. Part of her said she should be. S. Standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches.That’s an exceedingly odd number.Why was that gauge used?Because that’s the way they built them in England, and English expatriates designed the U.S. Railroads.Why did the English build them like that?Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that’s the gauge they used.Why did ‘they’ use that gauge then?Because the people who built the tramways used the same. As time passed his focus altered to an appropriate means of noting the approaching birthday of his most able and agreeable secretary. Casting about for a reasonable means of suggesting her value without embarrassing her, he stumbled onto an old recipe for a most elaborate German chocolate cake. Known to be bereft of culinary skill, that is to say, totally incompetent within yards of a kitchen, he nevertheless undertook that means of expression.Fortunately her day fell on a Monday giving him. "Yes, I've got some stuff I'd like to work on alone." You're going into V-World to see her aren't you?"Jace sighed and nodded."You shouldn't do that alone. It's too dangerous. You're totally submerged in an environment that's generated somewhere outside our lab. If their environment crashes, or goes haywire, our computer here may not be able to compensate. It could cause..." A brain seizure or a heart attack," finished Jace. "I know the dangers." Of course you do. You contributed to the.