I followed her over to the shampoo bowls and she put on me the shiniest pink vinyl cape, "How do you like this one? I found it just for you." winking ...nd grinning at me. "I found a few other things for you that you might like trying on in a little while."Now that piqued my interest."Lay back and enjoy. After one more leaves I'll break out the wine and we can take the edge off"I said, "Where have you been all my life?"Those wonderful ripe melons inches above my face and that woman flesh of her. Neither Ed nor I are foolish about such matters, especially with someone who's obviously no fool himself. If you'd been the type to make a big deal about race, it would be a different matter, but you obviously aren't."Ed hadn't been idle, and when he handed Steve his cup of coffee, Steve thanked him absently. "You know, Camille," he said, "it didn't occur to me until you said it, but you're right. Before it happened, I liked to think of myself as enlightened, but race was something I was always. Most of my mother's friends were beautiful. Beauty attracts beauty, as my dad used to say, before he ran off with his secretary and ditched both Mom and me. When Karen and my mother Janine go out, it's difficult to tell who is getting most of the stares. Mom is a towering six-one, with long straight blonde hair that she likes to tie into a French braid. Her eyes are an icy blue, her nose small and upturned, framed by high cheekbones and offset by full expressive lips that often split to reveal. Most often she insisted he get out of her bed and not sleep and be found by his mother who tended to enter the servants quarters before even the sun got out of bed. Only when his parents stayed over in Montauk for a night after attending a wedding of his cousin did they enjoy a blissful morning lounging and making love in her bed. A couple times Oona had allowed him to stay until 5 am, waking the lovers in time for Phil to escape undetected, but that always contained enough tension to make the.