I nodded and smiled in return as Ikicked my shoes off and unsnapped my jeans. My mind was whirling. Iwas going to have sex with another woman, somet...ing I’d fantasizedabout for years, but in my wildest fantasies I’d never pictured doingit in front of a crowd! As I pushed my jeans down I glanced at the blonde andwhispered, “What’s your name? Mine is Kate.” She glanced quickly at the leader and then whispered, “Emma.” I stepped out of my jeans and then. Our cooks are just as bad as yours. My onlyregret is, that I must mix the coffee you sent over with chicory. Ipray that we can meet again under proper and peacable terms.'Winter had set in shortly after. Both sides just did what was neededto stay warm and alive. Cold was a common foe. I kept drilling my men.I knew to keep them sharp and alive was to give them something to do.We also had dug into a nearby hillside. The earth kept the cold off ofus as we would sleep. I saw that my troops would. ‘The daughters of that pompous Marjoribanks man from the American bank?’ she whispered. (When the tie-in had been agreed George and some of his colleagues had visited our office for an excruciating ‘getting-to-know-you’ day during which he had been at his condescending worst.) ‘James, darling, that fluence of yours is going to get you into such trouble one day.’ ‘You don’t know the half of it,’ I told her, truthfully enough since in the fierce rush of events I had not had time to tell her. Theshop exterior was not quite what he had envisaged, looking considerablyseedier than his fantasies had demanded and this was sapping hisdetermination to enter lest the interior similarly failed hisexpectations.Eventually, after giving himself a thorough talking to, William entered,the opening door causing a chime to ring and was greeted by an ordinarylooking shop assistant who immediately asked, rather disdainfully, if shecould be of assistance. William was totally nonplussed by this and.