Deborah had warned me that more of her work was in doing deals withgovernment and police officials to achieve early releases for herclients, or even q...ashing convictions. Sometimes that entailed cash"donations" in used greenbacks to a chosen charity of an official'schoice, but the bottom line was that an American citizen might just gethome again as a result. She'd told me it was an unfortunate fact of lifein some overseas countries to grease a few palms to achieve a desiredresult. I had no. Charles was looking at his mom, the movie and at Ivy. Ivy was watching the film. She didn't look at him the whole time."Ive ... er ... Eva, would you like a cup of tea?" Charles asked her.He nearly made the mistake of calling her by her real name but managed to avoid doing that in the nick of time.Ivy continued watching the film, oblivious to him. He thought that she was listening to him but ignoring him on purpose. He hated this. He hated it that she was not even responding to him.Charles left. He felt his feet trembling.By then she was standing right in front of him. If he was lifting his hand he could reach her fairy breasts. But he couldn’t move a muscle.Then, with a theatrical move, she grabbed the two sides of the cardigan with her glove wearing hands and spread them wide open in front of him. He was facing now her beautiful body, just a breath away. Then she just ordered in an arrogant tone:"Get in" and as if he were a robot he annexed his body to hers. His face was buried. I said sorry to her if she felt bad about catching me. She understood the meaning and said its okay.Afterward, her messages used to come whenever she needed help. One day I was standing in my balcony in the morning and looking at her house. A most unexpected thing happened. She came out of her room in the balcony area to pick up some clothes. That too only in her bathrobe.She thought no one will notice her. But to my luck, while she was taking clothes from the wire hanging above her robe.