” She said laughing. We dried off and put our clothes on and started walking through the woods. “Do you want to walk over to auntie’s ho...se? I asked her. “No.” She replied. ‘I had rather just us be together today. She replied. “Are you hungry yet?” I asked her. “I can eat if you can.” She replied. ‘We need to keep up our strength.” “Strength for what?” I asked without thinking. ‘Never mind.” I said laughing. She just smiled. We sat on the log and ate two. This was a very different creature, he mused, as Kate the Bawd - or Mistress Kitty - ran the girls at The Boar’s Head Tavern just across the street from one of the theatres, and which enjoyed a very brisk trade when the playhouse was open.Due to the risks of the business Mistress Kitty was a regular customer of Simon’s; not for herself, as she was at least semi-retired and in robust health, but she took the girls’ well-being seriously and not only because their trade was her source of income.. He said it helped ease his conscience. He would hold me to his chest while he smoked, exhaling directly into my face. I shiver at the thought and I force back a cough. "I'm Ben, by the way." "Grace," I whisper, looking out the window as I see the town lights coming closer and closer into view. "Grace, what are you looking for? A gas station or a grocery store?" Ben asks. I frown and I shake my head, "Neither, somewhere to stay for the night. Hotel or a motel." "Sorry darlin' there isn't a hotel. Time passed quickly as we talked and sunbathed. I looked at the time on my cell phone and saw that it was getting close to dinner time. “Do you have any plans for dinner?” I asked Julie. “No. Did you have something in mind?” she asked, which surely made it easy for me to ask her out. “I know a good restaurant downtown, if you’d like to join me,” I suggested. She was all for it, so we left the pool and went to our perspective rooms, to shower and dress. I dressed casual in a pair of jeans, a.