I handed him the contract and he looked at it and smiled. He told me that he'd never thought for even a minute that I would get anywhere with Snelling... Several others had tried and had gotten nowhere. He smiled at me and told me that my bonus based on the deal was going to be obscene and then he told me to get back to work.At eleven Stella (Barry's secretary) called me and told me that Barry needed to see me ASAP. When I entered his office I started for a chair and he told me not to bother. I see how you look at me and it gives me kinda a good feeling to know I'm important to you. Plus, over the last year, you've become a young man and pretty sexy yourself.”“But isn't it wrong for us to feel this way?” Danny asked. “It's not like we're gonna fuck or anything like that. We're just playing around. I think I have a little exhibitionist streak in me and I'm totally safe with you. I like seeing how it arouses you. But if you feel it's wrong and you're uncomfortable, let's let it. Then she moved her head, looking about the tiny cabin, noticing his bed hanging from ropes, swinging slowly back and forth. She noticed his desk, the single chair. She noticed a carpet, frayed and worn, upon the deck. She looked again out of the windows at the smoking sinking wreck of the ship. Once she sat at the captains’ table. Once she strolled on his quarterdeck. Now she stood in a strange cabin, her hands tied tightly behind her back. She knew her fate. Every woman knew her. Still at least the falling pound was helping to keep export sales up. He shook his head. "No," he said, "Norfolk."Reg's face looked gloomy, evidently disappointed that the job did not involve some travel to warmer climes. "Very flat, Norfolk," he said in flat tones that betrayed his black country origins.Harry knew how to cheer him up. He passed him photographs of the five girls. "The county perhaps," he said, "but not these young ladies."Reg fished a pair of spectacles from his jacket pocket.