Now, with her permission, I’d be allowed to. ‘So I guess you like the view, huh?’ she said softly. ‘Who wouldn’t?’ I replied. ‘There’... a 3/4 naked woman on the bow of my boat!’ ‘3/4 naked, huh?’ she said softly, teasing me. ‘I guess if I pulled this string…’ She said while idly toying with the side of her bikini bottoms. ‘or undid the back of this top….I’d be totally naked.’ I stared. In my mind I could see it happening. She’d be totally nude. ‘Okay,’ she said simply. ‘Okay?’ I asked back. Nervously, I nod, not knowing if this is serious, trying to remember if I packed anything that could be illegal, and not really knowing Omani local laws. I pick up my bags and follow him to a table off to the side of the customs line. ?Can you please place your bags on the table, and open them? He directs, politely, as he places on some rubber gloves, ?this should only take a few minutes, if everything is in order?. I pick up my bags, and place them on the table, slowly leaning over,. Jeremy and Frank manfully ignored such things, often retreating to the balcony to drink beer and keep an eye on the grill.This time, as Frank was coming back from a restroom visit, he overheard Mary and Jennifer talking in Mary's bedroom."Yeah, despite all that, he does have a sense of humor. And, your step-dad is one handsome dude. If I was a few years younger and single..."Frank blushed and hurried back to the balcony, before the girls decided to come out of the bedroom.Later, on the drive. ..”“But you’re a boy!”“So I am!”“So you ought to know.”Toby looked at her, the sweet trusting face and her touching faith in him.“Well there are three sorts of boys. First the bigger, stronger, games players who reckon they have to show their masculinity, secondly the followers on who try to be as masculine as they are, thirdly what are termed the wimps, nerds, boffins and so on like me.”“You’re not! You’re not a wimp, nerd or boffin and you play a mean game of squash. You’re a gifted pianist.