" I adopted that philosophy for myself and I think I'd make Lily a pretty good husband. I'm trying to gather the courage to ask Lily out on a date. Th... problem is I'm afraid she'll turn me down. Lily is lovely and delicate like the early spring flower that bears her name. She stands just over five feet tall with waist-length, stick-straight pale blonde hair. She wears a size zero, if that (I'd like to fatten her up a bit.). She's blessed with a pair of intense, intelligent cobalt-blue eyes and. .. I told you that ... but never got an answer." She's been hurt, Charlie. I could speculate how, and I bet I know, at least in outline. How long is it since you called her?" Months," I said. "About ... seven, no ... eight months since the last time." Try again, Charlie."She let me off the hook after that and contented herself with humorous accounts of her love life over the slightly under a year since she found her husband in their bed with their neighbour."I don't know how you can be so .... "Finally we have the Country Gentleman, or just country for short." He raised his hand as well."Now here is the way this is going to work tonight. We have five identical rooms rented for you. In each room there are two beds and a sofa. When you go to sleep tonight you will be two to a room. There will be a body guard as well. He or she will move the sofa in front of the door and sleep there. No one goes in or out after midnight, unless it is a true emergency.Any time you wish to go out to see. "Lei, I don't expect you to become a slave for me. I want you to learn to consider this as your house as well as mine. I can't get you work right now because you don't have any papers. How do the Chinese businessmen get papers for their workmen?"Lei kept looking down at the table, "There are no papers required for the workers. The workers are usually kept out of sight and they become invisible to the inspectors that would cause trouble for the businessman. There is no salary paid to the worker.