Her preferred watering hole – something she didn’t share with any of her team – was across the river in Lambeth Palace Yard. Once the residence ...f the Archbishop of Canterbury, the red-brick, Tudor buildings had been converted long ago into a shopping mall and leisure precinct. There were restaurants and bars that offered a chance to relax. The other benefit of the location was that she could be back in the House or in her Marsham Street office quickly enough if she needed to be.She walked. "I think I scared Tad half to death, speeding through the streets looking for a drug store, Louise said. "I knew exactly where to go, of course, but I wanted to give you and Don all the time you could possibly need, and, anyway, I was having fun with ol' Tad."I took him past two all-closed-up stores before finally heading for the all-night Walgreen's that I knew would be open for business. I ran inside like a fool, gathered up an armload of 35 mm film, and scribbled out a check to pay for it --. Mind, he’ll get a telling off if Gianna sees him.’ Then seriously, ‘He doesn’t mean anything by it Jo, it’s his way of welcoming you into the family. You won’t be upset will you?’ I could see he was concerned. After all Silvio was his best friend, almost like an elder brother Mike said, so he was bound to be worried that he might upset me. ‘No,’ I said laughing, ‘I’ll try to avoid being alone with him but the odd pinch doesn’t matter. Anyway,’ I added, ‘any pinches we get there you can always. Get into that kind of casual sex, and you learn things about people. I found three kinds of guys, all self-described “straight”. One, the most common, were guys who discovered the ease of getting sexually serviced by someone like me. A comfortable relationship, not publicly friends, but friendly, and a connection they chose to keep private. Casual to the point of being business-like. Two, were guys who wanted sex with male partners. I fit the that bill to a tee. An attractive guy with mild,.