Come outside with me.’ I didn’t give her a chance to say no, striding right by her. We went round to the side of the building to where I parked my...bike. I sat down on the steps and looked up at her. ‘How are you, Cecilia?’ She hated it when I called her by her name instead of CeCe. ‘I’m pissed. Where were you last Sunday? I was home and wanted to spend time with you.’ ‘You said you weren’t coming home. I made other plans. You got home Friday, but didn’t even try to let me know until Sunday. ..”“But not the ‘black bird’ in The Maltese Falcon.”“Aha! A cinema fan!”“That’s what we did in the student residence: watch black and white movies on the telly.”“Do you read, too?”“Yes. But not what people think I should read. I love Jane Austen and Muriel Spark. But I never got into Patrick White. I like some of the Americans, though. Salinger and Roth. And Trollope, too. Especially the Parliamentary novels! And the Irish playwrights -- Synge and Shaw and Wilde and Behan and Becket!”“I’ve only. She pulled out a set of clothes and briefly inspected them for flaws. Satisfied, she laid them out on the bed. She noticed that her room-mates were starting to leave, so she grabbed her towel, cell, and keys, and followed. She toyed with the idea of wrapping the towel around herself, but decided it would just make her stick out in the sea of naked bodies.In the hallway, the girls were lined up two abreast. As she fell in beside Victoria, the girls from the room joined the ends of the lines.. A variety of cuffs and ropes and scarves held her wrists together at times. She was tied to posts and between posts and fastened to walls. She sometimes dangled from the ceiling by her wrists and sometimes by her ankles. They wrapped ropes around Faith’s chest to bind her breasts and sometimes wrapped a rope around her waist or thigh, which did nothing that Faith could determine.She was dangling from her ankles when Kim arrived. Cinny and Linny did not have many friends. They mostly relied on.