Our timing in getting ready turnedout to be perfect as the limousine I had ordered honked just then,indicating it was waiting in our driveway.I have t... admit I enjoyed watching Bill get into the back of the limowhile he was wearing a gown and high heels. It was one of those femininethings that most men don't understand, so seeing Bill struggle to get inthe car without giving a free show was gratifying. The ride to theballet venue was fairly quiet as Bill seemed unsure how feminine hecould pitch. I and Rebecca wanted her to sleep in my bed, but she didn’t want to take my bed because she didn’t live here, and in her mind it was just wrong to take another man’s bed in his own house. Rebecca and Sylvia talked a lot that after noon, but after a few hours it was time to eat we talked some more and come to found out she was in college to be a nurse, which was cool because with her tit’s and ass she’d do damn good in my book. I think after about an hour I started to think to myself that I was. I am happy that you came to Paris at this time, VV. I think you will enjoy this evening.’ It was a short walk from the cafe to the house, of which K occupied the two top floors. An old square, apartment building, with all the rooms centred around an inner courtyard. The third floor was a lounge and bathing area, where clients would arrive sometime before their appointment to relax with a drink, or to smoke hashish, watch a pornographic movie, to shower and change before being escorted upstairs. After the last month or so since touching down at JFK, he had only gradually got back into stride. The long meetings, the overflowing mailbox, the documents he had to prepare only now seemed the natural routine of his working life. Besides the projects whose looming deadlines justified his handsome salary, and generous annual bonus, there was at least one project that he had at last brought to closure. And this was, of course, his pursuit of Marianne.Finally, those evenings in the bar after.