It seemed such a shame, Emma reflected, that so many of Maisie’s questions and answers would end up on the cutting room floor. As part of the interv...ew, and as a kind of novelty item to signpost the kind of serious and sensible series Sex and Sensibility was to be, Delia Cook gave advice to Emma and Maisie about certain sexual behaviour appropriate to a couple such as them. She positioned the two lovers physically with her podgy hands and demonstrated in great detail, to Emma, the camera crew. Let us draw a curtain here, too, then, to suggest there is a backstagefor this drama, perhaps symbolic of the recesses of the mind. There,Cally's necessary and hallucinatory sleep can go on undisturbed asour narrative turns away from her and travels elsewhere as the traumaof her transformation occurs.Sam's NotebookI knew something was wrong the first time I saw her, before I ever puther in a trance or probed her. How? I have a feel for things. Not goodenough? Ok, how a woman as beautiful as she. ‘Will it get much hotter than this?’ ‘Yeah I reckon. We usually have a few days in January of 40-plus degrees.’ ‘Omigod, around 104 Fahrenheit?’ ‘Around there. We had 106F for three days once but not in my time.’ ‘Then I choose the room in the glassed-in back porch.’ ‘Um that is the coolest place during a heat wave but is not very secure.’ ‘Do you have anything approaching a watchdog?’ ‘Yes Yeller who is next to useless as a stock dog but is a German Shepherd cross.’ ‘What with?’ ‘Dunno. Her. This was not what I expected at all!He straightened up, grabbed my hands, and pulled me up towards him, putting my arms behind my back. I could feel his cock in my stomach and I noticed that it wasn’t as soft as it was before. It was stiff and rigid. I started to tremble a bit. This was way out of left field. I started to speak, but he put his lips on mine to quiet me. He raised up a bit.”Take off your clothes.” He didn’t sound like principal. No, his voice was deep, deeper than I had ever.