She knocked on John‘s door, when he answered it, he was so surprised to see her (John was 30 years old and very athletic). He gave her a huge hug an... kiss. He invited her in for a brew, she removed her long trench coat to reveal a nice pair of knee length leather boots, nylons, a black skirt that sat just above her knees and a black blouse. He commented on how nice she looked. She gave him a sexy shy smile as she sat down. He went and made the brews as they chatted. He came back into the room. Get amove on. Everyone already had breakfast and Aunt Alice is making yousome pancakes now." Okay but Karen wanted me to go shopping with her today. Can't I dothat instead?" Oh. Don't worry. I heard her ask you about shopping so I told her wehad a surprise planned for you to celebrate your ballerina debut. Sheagreed to join us. We'll pick her up on the way. So put your robe andslippers on and go eat."Just want I needed to hear. My robe and slippers were so feminine thatI hated them even more. That wasn’t true, though, and he didn’t want to lie to her. “You have the choir covered. You have the college students covered, although I don’t know if they gossip about people outside their little group. If you have that circle covered, you only have to worry about the other circles.”“You think I should?” she asked.“Worry? No. Talk to the circle? I really think you should. You said you wanted a support group. That’s a specially-designed support group. Now come here.” She did, and he kissed. The two of them sat waiting for their women. The German with increasing impatience, Freddie with increasing puzzlement.Eventually, Sandy emerged, followed by one of the shop's flunky's carrying a pile of boxes. "I see you had a successful shop," said Freddie."In more ways than one," Sandy said as she led the way out of the shop and flagged down a taxi. She and Clegg climbed in. The flunky piled the parcels in as well."What now?" said Clegg as the cab sped down the Boulevard Hausmann and on down.