So we run into each other here and there. I think he met his wife that way, out on the Coast." Have you bet on baseball games?" I asked, wishing I was...'t."No, no, shit no," he said, looking offended. "Never. Come on!" So," I said to Mr. Ambrose, confused, "what's the problem?" Tell him," Ambrose said to Charley Freeman. Then he sighed.Charley rubbed his mouth with the back of his hand. "It's like this, no big deal; heard about this early line, this bet, back when the new teams were created. I. She stood motionless on the curb-side, staring straight ahead for a short time, before a second visitor joined her. Whereas the woman was tall and thin, the man that joined her was little more than half her height and almost twice her girth. He, too, wore a dark pinstriped suit and almost in parody of the city gentleman carried a rolled umbrella and a bowler hat. From his features, his long thin moustache and equally thin beard, I judged him to be of Chinese origin.The Chinese gentleman rapped. "You're late! You'll be disciplined!" I'm sorry. I ... I'm not sure what I'm doing here. I..." Do you remember what I told you?" You ... you aren't serious." You're going to find out. Now let me hear it."Catherine thought of turning and leaving, yet something, something this woman said, did, the way she looked -- what was it that drew Catherine to her, made her want to be near, to be played with? Her heart was already pounding." ... Please, Alexandra." Please what?" ... Please let me in.". Say again? What it turns out she thinks I need is to getinto this baby doll nightie she pulls out of her dresser. No way, I tellher. But she always wears those for me, because I like to see her inthem. Sure I do, with her chest-warmers visible through that see-throughmaterial. If she can do it for me, why can't I do it for her? That'slike an upside-down way of thinking, but by then I was out of my mind, ifnot for sex, then at least for another session of hand-action. You know,getting.