That is what makes it all confusing.” “You ....” I said with a slight stutter, having trouble getting the worlds out of my mouth, “you think t...at I am beautiful?” Nolan looked over at me, unsure of what to say. I was sure that he did not mean to tell me half of what he had said, but now it was to late and he had no other choice but to answer my question. “You are the most beautiful woman I have ever met,” he said with a shaky voice. It was then that he did something that I would never have. " Oh," Liz was set back a bit. "Yes, I can see that, I hadn't really thought it through I suppose. I guess it's different when you are all joining in. It's just – well, I don't know if I'm ready to join in myself yet." I can see that. But look here's an alternative. Our next meeting is more a sort of 'show and tell', each of us is going to talk about a movie or a book with a bondage scene in it that we really like. Nobody's going to be doing anything, we'll just be chatting. The other girls. My girlfriends persuaded me to go through with thewedding. After all, they said, just because I wasmarried to a white guy there was no reason I should befaithful to him. None of them had been faithful. I thenfound out that apart from the one who was married to ablack guy anyway, not one of the others was loyal totheir white husbands. All of them had had black loverson the side. Some of their lovers had just fucked me.I suppose I should have felt betrayed by my friends;after all they had tricked. "This is Lester and his wife Cassandra, and on your right is Timothy and his wife, Tabitha." Hello," I nodded."That was quite an idea you had," Timothy said. "Blew mine right out of the water," he said with a half-smile.Now I knew where I had seen these two before. They were on the floor below, no doubt they were interested in the partnership as well."Yes, we know," Tabitha shook her head. She turned to look at me. "It has been all he has been talking about since yesterday." Sorry," I.