The tavern was one of those places where members of the press had a corner section for their verbal warfare and the pointed barbs were flying much to ...he entertainment of the fighting troops and the buxom beauties in attendance waiting on the customers with an eye to finding one with a purse of coins to trade for their favors in the middle of the day.Of course, I was influenced by my twenty-first century opinions and biases, but I found mid-day humping to be somewhat uncalled for in the middle. How are you?” the voice said. “Hi Claudia. I am fine love. How are you? Still telling fibs to your husband?” She laughed “you heard that” she said “yes he thinks I can’t live without it. He even wants to get a dog. I am panicking honey”. “Why don’t we get together and we can make a plan together” I said. Silence followed. “Are you still there? I asked. “Yes I am here. It is difficult because he likes to know what I am doing all the time” she said. “OK” I said “does he like shopping for clothes. If she said something, it would really make me feel a little better. I didn’t know why.Through sniffles and tears, she attempted to respond, but instead began to cry again. She wrapped her arms around me and sobbed quietly into my chest. I was stunned, I thought that bodily contact with a boy would repulse her more than anything at the moment. I couldn’t do anything but pull her in close and held her as she sobbed. I really didn’t expect this on my nightly run.After about 10 minutes of this,. They began to discuss what was going to happen today, tonight, and Saturday daytime. However, they never mentioned Saturday night.Sue told them of the initiations that some of the girls had to go through to get into the sorority, and some were quite comical. The other two high school girls laughed at what they might have to go through in another year in order to belong to this party house.But Tracy, kneeling in the corner was not laughing. She had heard some of the things and was really worried.