For a moment she said nothing, but only stared at him."My God, Janet, I apologized. I want you as much as you want me. Now let's go up to bed, darling..." That's not enough, Greg," she said, her tone of voice strange and hard. She wanted to know why he had not made love to her during the last ninety days. She wanted him to tell her his secret. "Just an apology won't do. For three months you've been neglecting me, in bed and out. You've been short tempered and almost cruel. You haven't even taken. ‘I hope I didn’t hurt Darlene’s feelings,’ Jim offered. ‘I meant that she should come along too.’ ‘That’s okay. We talked about it ahead of time. We knew you were going to ask.’ ‘Knew I was going to ask? How could you have known that?’ he demanded. ‘We saw you looking at us while you were playing Right Field,’ she laughed again. She was right, of course. He could have countered that he’d seen her giving him the eye all night. He decided to keep that to himself? ‘And so you two flipped a coin to. Jimmy took off his tuxedo jacket and put it around his mother's shoulders then put his arm around her. They sat and watched the waves rush up on the shore and the sea gulls circle and screech as they begin their morning quest for food. The sparse, puffy clouds in the distant sky were a mixture of crimson and white as the sun began to work it's magic.Jimmy felt his mother looking at him. He turned and looked at her face and saw a look he had never seen before. He searched her eyes, wondering. After fifteen years of hard work, and many hours spent doing hours thatothers were only too happy to let her take on, Jane had the financialcapital to open her own salon. She spent considerable time ensuring thatthis would be of a very particular design. The windows of the salondripped with delicate lace curtains in a pale pink colour. The walls ofthe salon were painted in soft pastel colours, even the upholstery of thechairs in the salon were pink in colour, with detachable white lacecovers on.