Like his love-making. Always between twenty six and twenty eight minutes of foreplay. She could time him. And always the same pattern. Kisses to start...followed by the cupping of her breast. A steady progression to sucking her nipples. Never less than eighteen minutes before any contact with her clitoris. Lovemaking must happen always with a minimum of two positions but these, too, appeared contrived, book-learned. She was to have three orgasms before he could let go. Oh sure, he was gentle and. M. and 5 p.m., if that's what the club wanted me to do. I think it was Woody Allen who once said, "95% of life is just showing up."Anyway, at 3 o'clock sharp Margaret handed me a cardboard cup filled with aging black coffee from the nurses' lounge on the third floor, and we sat down in two plastic waiting-room chairs to discuss Alice Winslow."First of all," Margaret said, "she's not gay. At least, she's never had any girl-girl experiences, and she doesn't seem overly curious about trying it.". " She left the door unlocked and started back to her office, I followed a bit slowly, distracted by the sway of her hips in the low lighting. I did not know the layout of the office and had to follow her path to avoid tripping while my eyes adjusted a bit more. When we reached her office she stood beside her desk with its soft lighting lamp, while I stopped beside a chair facing her and let my pack rest on the floor. She then stunned me by asking one of the most unexpected questions I have ever. That’s nice to see.”“We cut our mortgage cost by about 30%, we had a huge influx of cash, and the pipeline is solid. Our biggest problem right now is resources. But we’ll solve those over the next two months. It doesn’t help that Penny is gone for over a year.”“She needed it. And remember, at some point next year, I’ll probably take at least three months off when Chris and I have our rug rat.”I chuckled, “You and that phrase. I’d never heard it before you said it back at Halloween.”“Rug rat?.