Anyway, Carol had become part of the small Korean community as much as she was part of the traditional British one. Her husband had been much older th...n her, and had died a few years earlier. So she was widowed, firty-five and past her physical best, yet still attractive in her way. I enjoyed talking to her. One day, we got onto the subject of music, and she said she still had all her old LPs. I had recently made the switch to CDs and sold my albums, and I sort of missed them. “You should come. Another guard appears on the platform, and the two of them again tie the man's hands behind his back before literally dragging him between the posts where the dripping rope swings in the wind.The black-clad hangman takes control now, and the guards stand to one side, their usefulness at an end, making them no more than a part of the audience despite their height above the crowd.The hangman stands behind his client. Thinly gloved fingers turn the helpless man to the noose. The masked face speaks. I am sorry we troubled you. It clearly isn't going to work out. Cin, you can go to Jake now and I will walk Mari to a taxi and pay the driver.And that is the end of girl #3! Who knew!I am with Jake, and am filling him in when he gets a text from the girl. He texts her saying that she has obviously ignored all he had told her and had been rude to his wife and daughter. Such is not acceptable. She texts back asking to meet him and his final answer is he would never meet her.Rather than the. She asked me why I'd spied on her the week before and I answered honestly that I hadn't meant to. I told her that I'd heard a noise and had gone to investigate.Allison seemed to believe me. But we both knew that I had something on her, and when she said, "Tommy, you have to make us even again, I can't have you holding this over me for the rest of my life." I knew then that I'd have to do something humiliating so she'd have something on me.For some strange reason the fact that I knew it was.