"Use the bathroom and then I will fit afresh tampon." When she had completed this and put a fresh sanitary padin my panties I got into bed, she clippe... the wrist cuff on kissed meand said, "You have been really good today now keep it up and yourperiod will be finished tomorrow night, but I think the incentive hasworked so well I will restart your period at any time if your standardsslip, sleep tight darling." She then left locking the door behind her.I lay for some time thinking about how I. Thomas would try to destroy the tape recording, but he was willing to betCarl was going to have an extra copy or two that he could tease him withdown the road. So it would all be a waste of time. Still, he had no desireto view the recording."Mitch thought at one point that you'd wake up on us, but the knockout sprayI hit you with while you slept should have kept you out until ten minutesago," Carl began again.'Bastard!' Thomas mentally cursed his friend."Anyway, after that, I used the growth. I made small talk with Ted’s wife before asking her to hand the phone over to him.“How the hell do you do it?” he said as soon as he picked up.“Do what?”“Just fall into things. Douglas is simply brilliant. A company as small and unfocused like ours has a hard time attracting talent of that caliber.”“So he passes muster, then, I take it?”“Are you kidding? Not only is he brilliant, but in just this one meeting he managed to find a possible fix for the scaling problems Ronald was having.”Over the. “Wow.”“I bet you memorized prayers that are longer!”“Yes, but we use those regularly!”“Psalms then? You had to memorize the 23rd Psalm in first grade, I bet.”“Yes. How did you know?”“I was in Parochial school for first, fourth, fifth, and sixth grades. We moved a lot when I was young, and my mom couldn’t always get me into the local Catholic grade school when we moved.”“What made you stop going?”“I got myself kicked out by telling a nun to go to hell.”“That must have gone over well at home!”“My.