”I was only hearing one side of the conversation.Then she said, “four oh four,” and I suddenly realized that her chat with someone on the phone ...as about me.I stealthily shifted my position in the hallway to see if I could see into her office without being caught. She had a large mirror on her wall opposite her desk and as luck would have it, I had a perfect side view of her reflection in the office mirror.As she chatted, she had her very short, above-the-knee cut skirt hiked up high on her. “Do you know, I have walked past you four times in the last 15 minutes, and even asked the couple standing quite close enough to you for you to hear every single word —”“For change of a shilling for a couple of sixpences for the chocolate machine,” I interjected.“Quite. And still you didn’t recognise me!” She had a very superior smile on her plainly unadorned face. “But I had your ticket.”“I know, and I pointed you out to the ticket man at the barrier that you had my ticket and I wanted to. There wassomething about this woman that made Linda want to bolster her selfesteem. Maybe, it was because the woman seemed to be so devoid of it.As she began explaining skin care and helping Linda with makeup, Dee cameacross as quite extroverted despite her timid demeanor. While she worked,she informed them she had three grown children and related that herhusband had recently died. She also did not care much for living alone,even contemplating trying to find another widow to be a roommate. It. He asked whatI did for a living, and I told him I was a new lawyer... I asked him whathe did, and he smiled and said, 'fucked his way through life.' I was abit tipsy, but I told him that I meant professionally... I even knew if Iwas sober, I would have already blown him off. But he told me this crazystory about how he had addictive cum, and he just found women to supporthim. I think I found a way to move on and join some friends, but we keptdrinking and I passed out on the couch. I woke up.