Darleen was obviously pleased I had enjoyed myself very much, and told her if we were to be coming up to London often I’d like to join the club. I l...ked the idea of being able to hang out and socialize with other queers, and not to be scorned or abused for my feelings for women. The emotions I’d felt at the club was like an aphrodisiac for me, and now to be able to lie there with my lover naked to make love to one another was the icing on the cake. We had been invited to Margaret and Florence’s. When you felt yourself getting totally wasted, that would have been a good time to stop drinking. When you saw how hurt I was by Bill’s comment about my being a whore, you could have tried to wrap up the visit with him. When Bill asked if I came with the room, you could have called him a cab or asked me to. So, I’m sorry if my asking you to think about what you could have done differently dredges up unpleasant memories from your past, but it’s what fucking grown-ups do, Chad.”“So, if you’re. As she thought gleefully for the thousandth time of her mother finding out about her ‘indiscretions’ she thought back to today’s events. It was only supposed to be a dual family get-together, as her father explained it, which was why she had agreed to be there. He had been anxious to see his old business partners and their family, although her mother had insisted on making a formal thing out of it. Still, with the promise of good food from her father, and some different guests from her mother’s. There was a large coffee pot nearby that saw heavy use as well. Two of them actually, and nobody was drinking decaf, it appeared.Most of the morning talk around the table was about the weather, and here I was able to hold my own already. One thing I knew, having been flying on several different worlds, was that people who were going to put themselves in the air needed to know what the air around them had planned for them. That meant weather, in the general sense, and the weather in a more.