She reckoned it served him right too, for tupping her sister without telling her first… She in a temper, had kicked him in the nuts so hard he was a...week in bed and that was what brought on the droop, Portnoys or whatever you call it! It wasn’t that he had cheated on her, my mum min, isn’t like that at all! No… it was that he did it behind her back, it was the secrecy that had hurt… well hurt him anyway. Either way, he had come to me last April and asked if I would stand in for him with my mum. It was the first time that I realized that they hugged and kissed alike as well. I got this sly look and smile from Summer as I broke away from her and began chatting with her mother. My baggage finally came around and we walked towards the parking area.I put my bags in June’s trunk and then opened one suitcase to retrieve the Coach handbags. They were overjoyed to get them and surprised that I spent so much money on them. I made like it was a big deal but actually the handbags were inexpensive. In the car we introduced ourselves and i found that she is a 6 month old widow and she and her husband were working in chandigarh in it department and her husband was a deputy commissioner who had been killed and because she had feared for her life she had taken a transfer to Mumbai,She gave me her visiting card and found out that she was near the theater for an income tax raid since 2 days and after the settlement she was bored and did want to go back to the office.i parked the car in the. Anyway when the three of us got together, we always found something to discuss, where we were going rock climbing that weekend, or even I suppose, like most youngsters, what record was top of the charts.Anyway, it was when it did eventually strike Phil and me that getting all close up and personal with Polly, might not be such a bad idea, that life began to get really interesting. All I can remember is the venue that both Phil and I chose as the ideal occasion for a first date with Polly; was.