. Oh, Bev, you're such a naughty girl! The things you can do with your tongue..." No dear, Bev is hardly a dog. In fact, she's very attractive..." Wel..., if you must know, she's your father's former mistress..." Oh, yes he did. I knew about her for years but I don't think he knew I knew..." No, I'm not making this up. After the funeral we were talking. I told her no hard feelings, since I always knew your father thought the grass was greener on the other side of the fence... Ohhhhhh, Bevvvv!!.... Booked for the occasion is Justine, a fabulous, feminine, Aussie feline whose heels I had expected to click at oh-nine-forty-five. Anyhow following a further phone call, I am due on parade at ten-hundred. I thus leave my room in a state of some anxiety.The lift from the 23rd floor seems to take an age as I desperately do not want to meet anyone I know on my way out of the hotel. I escape to the safety of the street and distance myself as quickly as possible from any acquaintance who my casually. By the end of the second month, with fully half of the semester still to go, I was starting to have repeats. I shouldn't have been surprised, in a school that numbered less than two hundred girls, and fully half of the older girls were already experienced, and half of the younger girls were still not ready (one of those impossibly unquantifiable intangibles).I had by the Christmas break sampled in excess of two-thirds of the girls, as well as most of the female staff; some of them more than. It was several hours before they were done.Passengers and baggage had been coming aboard the whole time. The whistle blew and a few people hurried to leave. The bosun touched my shoulder as the boat left the dock and headed out into the river, "you have the grave shift."I nodded and went below to put the rifle away but kept the two Wolfe pistols. They were in underarm holsters with extra rounds on the back of my belt. Like the rifle and most of the modern pistols they were ten millimeter by.