You're not saying what I think you aresaying, are you Karen?"Karen smiled cryptically.I had an image in my head of Bill. Was this what Karen was telli...g me?"What do you mean about salt water in the river?" I asked."Well, the edge of the river is the sea, the edge of the sea isn't theriver." So you are saying Bill isn't the man's man everyone thinks he is?" Ireplied."Precisely, but it suits both of us for the rumours to continue. Bill hasa steady stream of customers who imagine he cheats on me,. To cut a long story short, the same scenario played out over the coming weeks. I was desperate for her to actually watch me without hiding in the shadows, I wanted to see the expressions of lust and desire on her face. Then one day fate took a hand when I arrived home from work early one day and Gill the neighbour was outside, she looked like a startled rabbit caught in head lights. She didn't seem to know whether to stay or run inside, but as it was she fiddled around with her car. I said "Hi". They gladly accepted it, and kept walking. In not much time, they understood that this was nothing like what they had in mind. Men and women were dancing like crazy, with wine and champagne being spilled everywhere. The party was not formal at all. Actually, all these women dressed like that made Kate look like a nun in her red long dress. Not much time into it, a suited man came up to them.“Am I speaking with Mr. DeWitt and his spouse?” asked the black dressed man“Yes, you are.”“Lord. Elizabeth, for the first time in months, had gotten up and moved about without pain, sometimes excruciating, in her lower back and knee. She had automatically reached for her pain pills as soon as she awakened, then had stopped just after opening the bottle. Almost too good to believe, she moved her leg experimentally, then sat up on the side of the bed. No pain. No pain.She had still expected it to hit as she carefully stood. When it still didn't, she stripped off the gown that had been.