Go and strip off and put it on then come back." I did exactly as I was told and I couldn't help but notice that when I stripped off I was getting quit... aroused! I wrapped the robe around me tightly and returned to find Rebecca was similarly attired. She was sat in front of the mirror and had applied just a small amount of eye shadow and was just finishing with some lip gloss. She smiled at me before sitting me down in front of her and began applying a similarly subtle layer of make up to my own. .what?Merita sighed again. Everything is made up of tiny particles divided into elements based on their composition. These elements bond together. Like Iron or Gold or Carbon or Oxygen. These are elements. And when they bond together, they form molecules. You breathe a combination of gases. The most prominent is made of a pair of Nitrogen atoms. The next most is made of two Oxygen atoms, which your body breaks down to fuel your metabolism, and in the process you exhale a gas made out of a. “It’s still early,” she said, “let me buy the birthday boy a cocktail?”It would have been churlish to say no, so I agreed.As we left the pub she slid her arm through mine and told me she knew exactly where to go.Ambling arm-in-arm we chatted easily until we arrived at the Blind Pig - a semi-secret cocktail bar in Soho. A knock on the door and we were admitted to the hidden upstairs bar.I let Karen take the lead as we headed to a dark back corner and took a table. The names of the drinks were. It was England, France and Spain that carved up the turkey in the New World and poor Holland was merely a footnote in history.I started my business career in the sub-basement of a bank on Wall Street using coded communication devices to buy and sell stocks and bonds that were the “thirty pieces of silver” of the international financial world. Great fortunes moved from country to country like chess pieces of twenty-four carat gold hidden from the eyes of the general public and banking inspectors.