But I was quite self-confident, happy in my own skin and easy-going.Joan was like a mother to me, but a mother who I was able to confide in, and trust... I would never have admitted to my own mother, that I had been walking down that path to the beach, naked. Joan accepted that I meant no offence to anyone I might have come across. She understood that I enjoyed the freedom, and independence, of nudity. She even suggested that it might have been more honest to have continued walking, when I had. The papers on your desk flutter as you push them to the sides, revealing a folder buried under the clutter which you snatch and take out of the room with you.You couldn't say exactly when it was you decided you wanted to be a lawyer, but you've never been one to let injustice stand. It's been a few years since you graduated law school, and you're proud of what you've accomplished since. Though you haven't climbed the ranks as fast as some of your school friends - mostly because you would never. Warboys and Cook. Of course it was Miss Harrington that again, voiced her opinions and refused to remove her dress or allow herself to be punished, deeming herself too old for that sort of thing. For a few moments I left them and returned with my case of canes and a whip."Much as I prefer the birch, I doubt if there are any ready made and steeped here. Miss Harrington, are you going to undress and take the caning I intend to give you or will I have Jack hold you down while I whip your buttocks. I know you, Ron. You are not going to say to Sarah what she wants to hear if I am here with you.”“I don’t know what you are suggesting, Ronnie?”“I’m telling you that I know that you are in love with more than one woman. I understand it. That is what I’m saying. Now I need to leave so that you can give your lover what she wants and needs.”“Shit, Ronnie, where does that leave us?”“Nothing changes. That’s where it leaves us. After this, I am pregnant with Gary and Sarah and Sally are both pregnant.