“I hope I remember how to get to the leased fields where the son and I started putting up some fence. I’ve only been there once.” A few moments ...f quiet passed. “Uhm, listen,” started Denny. “Don’t you feel kind of, you know, weird without any clothes on?”Denny looked over at me with a very cautious question that obviously, courageously, took him moments to ask. “I’ve never worked on a farm where people like you were walking around naked and certainly not also working on the job. I’ve never. Or perhaps because I had become calloused to violence and used to non-emotional response. Was I that cold now that I barely felt the loss of another human being? Cassie welcomed me with a big bear-hug and a wonderful, wet mushy kiss. ‘Welcome, Colin. I’m so happy you are here. It’s been so long.’ I was beginning to think she wasn’t going to let go of me as I shook Denis’s hand while she clasped me to her massive bosom. Same old Cassie, alive and happy, genuinely glad to see me, wanting me to. A clear shake in his knees. The studio was still. It was a warm night, with just a gentle breeze. The sound of nearby bars with their music playing and the indistinct chatter of patrons floated in through the open windows. That and the smell of exotic cuisines being cooked in the local restaurants were the only things linking the scene unfolding in that room to the outside world."Um, um, yes I am Catherine. But I don't see what that has to do with pilates?”"You will address me as Miss, and you. I know it certainly works with Wallace. I’ve had many a morning when I could hardly sit when I’ve done something like that.”“Mummy, he beats you that hard?” I asked in amazement.“Oh Abbie, you know how he spanks, no, it’s not from the spanking.”“Mummy, tell me.”She seemed a little embarrassed and flustered, she tried to deflect the question, saying, “Abbie, you don’t need to know all of our little secrets.”“I tell you everything, Mummy, I want to know.”“Your father likes my bottom dear.”“Of.