‘Let’s get inside.’ She went into the bathroom to wash her face and brush her hair. When she came out, I had coffee brewing and the bottle of Ka...lua waiting. I held her for a few minutes, then led her over to the couch. ‘What in the world happened?’ I asked. ‘He’s such a bastard,’ she said. ‘I tried so hard to make him proud of me and show him I could be beautiful again.’ ‘What did he say?’ ‘He told me I was being foolish. He said it was ‘Unbecoming’ of a woman of my age and I needed to take. She also adored flowers, would spend hours arranging them, and would make herself scarce whenever the telephone or the doorbell rang. I have few friends of the variety that like to ‘drop in’ and sit for a time ‘visiting’, but when they did show up, Cat was scarce. Only once had a man who was introduced as the boyfriend of a girl who would occasionally come over to watch football, (her current husband didn’t like televised sports), came into the kitchen where I was getting a couple of snacks. Immediately she walked up to him and introduced herself. He was awestruck because she came to him on her own! They hit off instantly...a case of unlike poles attracting. Aruna charmed him and they fell in love, culminating in their marriage.The first two days of the Honeymoon went off well. Both were virgins and together they explored and experienced the basic pleasures of sex. There was no benchmark and they were happy with what they got from each other; at least it appeared so!On the third. From the corset dangled four leashes, twoat the top, just beneath his breasts and two at the bottom, they securedthe top ones to rings on the bootees at his ankles and the bottom onesto rings on his mittens by his wrists. Leaving him there Alfred began togo through some other things on a wide laboratory bench along the wall,whilst Elwyn began to adjust a set of support bars set on a raisedplatform in the corner. Richie sat, then went to stand up eyeing theopen door, only to find he could no.