" Sherry got up on the table. Like a bride walking down the aisle shecautiously took one step at a time. There were a few comments as she walked. Sh... noticed all of the ladieslooking at her except Lady Frances. That's strange she thought. She almost acts as if she didn't want to be here. She remembered the feeling she got when Frances had pinched her nipple upstairs and forcibly kissed her. When she got to the end of the table where Frances was sitting. Sherry smiled at her. Frances. I’m going the extra mile on that alone.”I do not understand all of this—what is “polygraph” and “double-blind?”—but I understand enough to be glad that I spoke as I did.When dinner is finished Irving asks that we sleep early. “I want to get off at about oh-dark-thirty,” he says, “do the whole thing in one day. Can you handle that, Linda, you’ll be taking your own car?” She nods.“One more thing,” he says as he goes to his room. “I don’t expect I have to tell you what’ll happen if either one of. I have to show you so you can do it too. You won’t believe how turned on they get. In fact, when I do it right, they can’t stop cumming. I mean they really can’t stop.”“Sounds great, Duane, but I’ve got...”“I’m getting $2000 a pop, man. You can get it too. Imagine $2000 a pop, Howie. You’ll be driving a Porsche in no time.”Duane had my undivided attention at this point, and I had to ask him how he managed it.He laughed and pulled up his tee shirt. “Check the abs, man.”He wasn’t the skin and. That made me wonder if Hortense and Agatha had shown up expecting tofind Effie all prim, prudish, and prissy. If they had, they wouldhave been disappointed. They would have had no power over the Master,despite having made the Mistress believe her name was Effie. If theyhadn't, it was no big loss. However, as unlikely as it seemed, I wascurious if they'd get the next available Mistress as compensation forlosing the last one.I also started wondering how Charli and the Master were getting.