. aren't you?"Rosie blushed and nodded."And if you still want to be a social worker as you said, you need to make sure you keep taking your pills, and...keep working in school." Oh, I do ... but I admit my ... priorities have changed a little, recently."Dulcie laughed. "Yes, I can believe that. And Rosie ... don't be a stranger." She stood, thinking there was little more to say, but Rosie rose to her feet and moved to embrace her.Holding her, she said, "Dulcie, You've been mother, friend and big. .She wipes her tears again and wipes her nose, I straighten your arm.- ... And then one day a bad story comes from someone who saw Tércio in a hotel with a girl, she looked like his daughter! That's what that 'friend' said, with the most innocent look.- Was she younger?- Young! She could have been our daughter's sister.- Did you see her picture?- Picture? Darling... I was with her...Dri was talking in an increasingly thin voice, debauched.- ... I went tô her apartment, she's one of those fancy. ”Look, I appreciate the odd night outwith the girls, and I have to dine out the occasional evening for work, but normally, Ispend the weekends recovering from the week, and evenings in the week I just wanna comehome and be waiting on hand and foot — and now I am… so…“ She shrugged, and finished”… so if I don't go out, why should he?“I didn't know how to answer that!”Well, yeah, hmmm,“ I said, lamely.Then he was back with the coffee. Sue's eyes twinkled wickedly as he poured. She gave mea wicked. She pictured her body, seen sideways on, the chair sweeping it round and raising upwards the lower half of her frame, up towards Ricky. In this picture painted in her mind, she could see her most private parts being pushed up by the chair like an offering to Ricky and she became aware that in reality her legs were planted apart as far as the tightness of her dress allowed. The mind picture had been so vivid, a woman wantonly displaying herself towards this man, ready and open for him like some.