‘It’s really pouring,’ she said, fascinated by the novelty of standing naked in her kitchen with another person. Even when she was alone, she ve...y rarely moved about her flat in anything less than her undies. But now here she was, naked, with her arms around this wonderful, naked man, in her kitchen, looking out of the window at pouring rain, and flashes of lightning, and the low distant rumble of thunder. She thought how to phrase asking him to stay the night with her, what if he was like her,. Noticing it was a little before 8am, he had to get going. He was scheduled to be at the 24th Street Mall at 9am for prep work and costume fitting. The Mall opened up at 10am and the line of kids and their parents would be wrapped around the Christmas Display for Santa. The first day was always the worst, because parents now wanted to get pictures of their kids with Santa on their holiday cards. It was the new trend of cards and all parents wanted their kids to be the center of attention in. Telephone calls and letters were something I was grateful for, but the actual sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell of my beloved were so much more than hearing the distorted sound of her voice through the telephone, or hungrily re-reading her letters for the umpteenth time!The train journey down to Bristol took almost four and a half hours with a change of train at York; I had borrowed a couple of novels from the local library and they kept me entertained. Yeah, okay, perhaps Dennis Wheatley’s. Instead it had a conference table, a coffee machine, and several almost comfortable looking chairs. I expected that the chairs were meant to be not so comfortable.‎I was first to arrive, but Porter was only a few minutes behind me. He was far enough behind so that I already had a cup of, what I saw as, bad coffee. Everyone else might like it, but it was too weak and bland for my taste. Too many years of stale convenience store coffee had ruined my taste buds.‎I saw the five foot ten inch, or so.