Alone."Jimmy's face became sullen. "Am I in trouble?"Gail smiled. "No, hon, it's just that..." She watched the confused boy staring up at her. "You kn...w how I helped you with, um, your problem?"Jimmy blushed and looked down. "Uh huh." Well sometimes I have that problem and need someone to help me."Jimmy's eyes darted to Gail's crotch and then back up. His eyebrows furrowed. "You don't have a di ... um, a penis."Gail chuckled. "You can call it a dick when we're alone if you like. I don't mind. I. "Knee straight during the tendue Nicholas," Madame Ruth said. "Point yourfeet."The class was very challenging. From the barre, they went to center. Theyworked on different types of jumps."This is pretty tough," Nicole whispered to Amber.They did some turns across the room before the end of class.At the end of class came curtsies, although Nicole, as Nicholas, wasshown how to do a bow."Very good class," Madame Ruth said at the end. "You've worked very hardtoday."She told them the summer session. Fowziyah couldn’t stop raving about the City of Ottawa and how thrilled she was to see so many Somalis and other minorities. At her new school, Algonquin College, she joined the Muslim Students Club. I warned her about the Capital’s covert and insidious racism. If your last name sounds ‘other’, some companies won’t hire you even if you have recommendations up the yin yang and a degree from McGill University. Trust me. Every year, thousands of African, Asian, Arab and Hispanic students graduate. Our marriage would be business, not personal. Well, unless you fell in love with me,” she added with a smile.“So you ARE just as cold and calculating as ever!”“Of course I am. But I’m not trying to force anything, and it sure wouldn’t be anything that would happen before you graduated. The offer’s there. A business deal, Steve, with benefits, of course.”“I’ll take it under advisement!” I laughed. “Speaking of business, I have a meeting in the morning to talk to a couple of my professors about.