You probably couldn't stand it anyway. I hung up charts with the long triple curves at the times when the interest came back, and planned trips around...them to some extent, and was careful on certain days. That last part didn't hurt, anyway. People knew me for talking about the rhythms, and asking a man for his birthdate serves as well for a conversation starter as asking what sign he is. Maybe better, since he won't fudge by a year or two if he understands that there might be an advantage in. "Where's the champagne?" Vicki asked looking around the back of the limousine."Champagne?" Rose asked."I ordered Champagne," Vicki said. She opened a sliding panel on the car door. "There it is."Vicki opened two mini bottles of champagne. Holding up a bottle cap, she said, "They used to come with corks. Now they come with bottle caps."She filled a half of a glass for Rose, a full glass for Lisa, and took a full glass for herself. Once everyone had a glass, she raised hers and said, "May all of. Michael then walked in and although Alan had seen him on TV and in thepapers he was amazed at how handsome he was, at least six foot tall,broad shoulders, a head of blond curls, and bright blue eyes, all in abeautifully made grey Italian suit. Mora made the introductions. Alanstanding up to shake his hand felt all of his five foot, seven and ahalf inches to his discomfort.When he sat down again Michael asked him to push over and got into thebooth beside him. With anyone else Alan would have. " Maybe it'd be different if he'd actually succeeded with me," she conceded. "I don't know." Well, how do you feel about Yvonne? She raped you." No she didn't." Hope tried to laugh it off, but Marcus was obviously serious."She drugged you, and then coerced you into something while you weren't capable of rationally objecting." She was drugged too, Marcus." Extenuating circumstances, perhaps, but that doesn't change what happened." It's not like she forced me..." She didn't have to. She drugged.