Occasionally he had seen slave girls taken to be whipped exposed as they walked through the crowds, but this was something else ? to consciously humil...ate her like that. ?Prepare yourself,? the triumvir said, looking at her, but she just stared at him, open-mouthed, backing away into the press of the soldiers. There was, she knew, no escape. As the triumvir had begun his speech, she had half-known what he was about to say, had known that they would take every opportunity to pile on. My fiancé Ali, who is now my wife, and I had had just graduated from college the prior May. Ali was a classic beauty who could be accurately described as the prototypical pretty young elementary teacher. I knew when I met her she would make a wonderful mother which has ultimately proven true. I proposed to her during our final semester and we moved in together after graduation into a two story, two bedroom, townhome located in the City where we went to school. She found a teaching job and I. I got a pm from Don. "My wife is visiting her sister in Devon and will be away for the next few days. Why not come here? I'd love to be your photographer. My garden is reasonably secluded and the other neighbour is always out playing bridge on Wednesday afternoons. I'd get a real thrill watching you in the flesh." Not half as much a thrill as I'd get" I thought!! It was almost too perfect. Wednesday was my golf day so the wife would not be surprised that I was out and I knew ,from Google earth. She faced Suzie-Q and Larry and said, “We’re taking a vacation cruise this summer. You could go with us for your honeymoon and share a room.” My wife had an impish smile.Suzie-Q had a horrified look. “No! We want a quiet place away from people.”Larry said, “While we appreciate the offer, I don’t think my brother in-law and his wife should be with us on our honeymoon.” He grinned. “Unlike you two, we can’t get together very often and never very privately. That would be tortuous. We don’t want.