Doctor Rikkers only smiled. "It has just worked perfectly, MissJefferson." But to himself, he added, especially those brand newmannerisms she'd exhi...ited and failed to notice.*******With little else to do, since Dr. Rikkers had confined her activitiesto the lab, Marti stood in front of the mirror silently admiring herbody. Since she still didn't feel overly comfortable with or veryconfident about wearing something feminine, she wore only a plainlight-green sweatshirt with matching. When they got back to the house, they went out to the deck, where Phil started the grill, and Jack broke out a growler of his beer to share with Phil. Amy took a half glass and Steph declined for now, needing a break until she had some food.Amy suggested they take a dip in the pool, which sounded wonderful, and would be refreshing after the glasses of wine. Steph turned to the house to get her bathing suit and Amy, pulling her dress over her head, said, "Where are you going?"And there she. "You know - like in one of Shakespeare's plays." George had disqualified her on the spot, explaining that the curse was in fact extremely useful - Shakespeare had routinely subjected himself to it before sitting down to write.After the contest was over, Ron had waited for Hermione to lift the curse, and when Hermione refused, with unusual eloquence he pleaded in most poetical language that he be restored to his pre-blank verse state. But Hermione would have none of it. She'd caught him again. But momma liked to wear that nightgown around after supper. It looked nice, I supposed, and it would keep you warm if it wasn't too cold, but now? In summer? I thought that was goofy. I said so.My mother just said, "Well, we're going to make you one young lady, so get used to the idea."So we made me a nightgown. Mamma rooted around in her stash of cloth and started muttering about nothing being big enough. Finally she came out with some old curtains that she thought she could make work. They.