" Don't want to go there again," Jack said firmly."How do you honestly feel about Ellie?" That's a question I've never allowed myself to think about. ...t was too much like cheating." That gives me the answer. When will you welcome her into your bed and consummate?" Not until they're divorced." Not a good idea, Jack. I know your sense of honor needs to define a point when it is no longer cheating on Bert. At the same time, the waiting time for the divorce to be final will be the time when Ellie. "I got fired!" she says.I'm standing there looking at her and wondering what she did to ax her job. She says,"Well?" "Well what?" Aren't you going to give me a hug and say everything's gonna be fine?" I haven't seen much of you in the last three months. You avoid talking to me and NOW you want me to get all cozy with ya? fuhgeddit! So, what did you get fired for . . . embezzlement?" Fuck's zat s'posed ta mean?" Why don't you tell me, you seem pretty good at it!"She looked at me with daggers in. "Don't come in," she said, "we are both on our way out" and we left!"We walked through the pedestrianised shopping streets and some leafysquares in the neighbourhood without a word being spoken, until wearrived in the most upmarket part of the city. We turned a corner andwent into a building through a pair of large glass doors. We were in areception area, rather like the one in Cindy's, only much moreluxurious."Is Carl here, yet?" Cindy asked the receptionist, who to my eyes lookedlike a. .. she grabbed the handle and pushed in.The heat from the building hit her in the face as she stepped inside and as she moved she could hear her heals on the hard marble floor. They sounded so loud in this hollow hall. At the end of the hall she punched the button for the elevator and waited. Just as she was growing impatient with the damned slow elevator a young sexy man walked up behind her and stood next to her. "What luck! Maybe this day won't be so bad after all." she thought and it seemed.