"Baby, I love you just as much, and Ann, too, of course. But what brought this on about Cramer? True, she's very pretty and seems to be intelligent, b...t why did you two start this all of a sudden?"Laura hugged him, then leaned back against the wall. Glancing down the hallways for a second, she turned back to Jeff. "Maybe it had something to do with Evie going after Linda. I don't know for sure. But a few days ago, Diana mentioned that it was time to add another woman. We all talked about it,. "What's going on, why are you... I mean, why?"Tearfully, the crying started immediately as I clutched the champagneglass with both hands to my faux bosom, my body racked with sobs. Icouldn't bear to look at his face, to realize the sense of betrayal oftrust I felt my actions had caused.I stood there, sobbing, for about the longest minute of my life, my mindracing with thoughts of the anger my parents would have, as well as thepublic humiliation that was surely to come. The one thing I. Keep that thing away from me. I'm an innocent, poor, naive virgin and your awful man-thing wants to deflower me. What will people say? They'll shun me for falling under your spell and then I'll be shunned - forced to wander the Earth, alone, naked and hungry – all because Mr. Johnson was on the loose."People will see me wandering up and down through their towns and say, "there goes Beth Ann. She was a good girl but Mr. Johnson stole her innocence and now she is condemned to wander the roads of. I went to bed in my usual long satin nightie, and fell into a disturbedsleep, too busy dreaming of what she might do to me, not that I reallyknew as we had not discussed that, nor did I really want to, that wasthe whole point, I wanted to be helpless and at her mercy, if she hadany.The morning came, and I got up as usual and showered, I had plenty oftime, Miss was not due until 10am.I dressed leisurely and did my makeup, spending lots of time over it soI looked as good as I could for my Miss, I.