Maria, I noticed, sat in the seat just below mine."Your husband is about to shine, Maria," I said.She turned and smiled at me. "He is. He's so excited... Clint. He's goin' ta show off your horses, he says. Truth be told, he looks on those horses more as his than yours. He talks about 'em all the time. Wait until you see this one, he says. Or wait until you see that one. He's like a little kid in a candy store. I've never seen him so happy." Good evening, ladies and gentlemen," a female voice. The disembodied fingers had now turned into a groping, squeezing hand that had discovered her hard nippled breasts that were fetchingly presented by the shelf bra that they had also fitted her with at the store. The hand was rather demanding and quite clumsy, even when compared to what she had experienced in the subway. Sissy looked from face to face around the table and found most of them either looking at the stage where something terrible was happening to a number of plump, naked Japanese. “I-I’m fine...” She stutters in reply. “Well what is it? What’s happened?” I hasten to add. “It’s Dave; he’s kicked me out...” She said, just uttering the hint of a whimper down the phone as if to cry. Dave is aged 19. Dave was Jodie’s long-term boyfriend who had treated her like shit from the day they got together. He was always paying her little – to no mind when they were together and just generally not doing the ‘boyfriend thing’ as she called it. 9/10 times he left her house, Jodie’s. "Yes," I told her, "your friend told me your name." "My friend's name is Jill," Jenny told me.One day, saw Jenny leave Miss Babbage's classroom, and I knew who was her English teacher. "Hi, Jenny," I said, "so you have Miss Babbage for English?" Yes, Kent, I do, and I know you had her last year," she told me. And I knew then that, somehow my noticing Jenny had been seen by the eagle-eyed Miss Babbage, whose recollection of past students was legendary. And, just maybe, Miss Babbage had told.