. You know that gun won't harm me, right – at least in the long term? I'm not bullet-proof, but I can recover from the wound ... but it would greatl... improve my outlook on things if you weren't pointing it at me so nervously." Yeah, but I'll bet it would slow you down pretty good," I said, keeping the shotgun pointed at him just the same."I came here to try to work together to find Madam X – or at least to share ideas about how to take her down. How are we going to do that, sitting twenty feet. I was wearing a pink t-shirt and pink shorts, a sign of being a virgin. When the door rang Namrata went and opened it. The girl standing in the door was absolutely gorgeous. Her name was Sonia and she looked just like a goddess. I guess she was around 5”9’ and with heels she simply towered over me. She was wearing a black sari with sleeveless blouse. Her mother was very stern looking and also quite tall and she seemed to know mom quite well. Mom introduced her and Sonia to dad who just mumbled. "With few exceptions, what is marketed as high quality Brie here is bitter and spotted with brown mold. I needed to look far and wide to find even this middling quality cheese."It tasted fine to me, delicate and creamy in fact. I couldn't imagine it being any better, and told her so. Her response: "If I were Judith and you Holofernes, I would cut off your head for impertinence!" A rather drastic remedy, I thought.Rather than cutting off my head, she filled it with a cultural education of sorts.. "Darling," he said. "There are two things we have to discuss. They're both important but one more than the other."Victoria sobered immediately. "Go on," she said."This chap you're going to the Ball with, Charles Fitzmaurice." Ye-es?" It was a slightly belligerent tone of voice."Rumour has it that he considers himself to be a bit of a lady's man." So? Do you think I can't deal with that?" No, darling. I think that you'd cope adequately." You said 'would' not 'will'." Yes because I gather he's.