" I don't take rejection well Mary, and you have the reputation that you've rejected everyone who's ever asked you out. You do realise that there's so...e in this college who suggest that you swing the other way don't you?" Do you?" she asked.Honest answer?" I queried."Honest answer, I'm thick skinned." She assured me."Well at one time I did wonder. But I've got to know you quite well now and I've never seen anything that leads me to believe that you swing that way." Thank you, and for your. I really hope you're really into that one. Know why? BecauseMommy has a friend coming over soon and he's going to help me make thatdream of yours come true. Now doesn't THAT make Baby happy?"No. No. No. I had explained that infidelity on her part was strictlya fantasy, not something I wanted made real. But of course, she knewthat. As she had said, now it was what SHE wanted that mattered. I hadgotten myself into a nasty situation and was powerless to do anythingabout it. I strained. 00 bail and house arrest until the trial.’ ‘$25,000.00?’ I sat back in my chair. Hawk and I had nowhere near that much. How were we supposed to come up with that kind of money? Mr. Wallace nodded. ‘And house arrest until the trial. I had to talk fast to get him to agree to that. He was asking for $75,000 dollars bail. I had to agree to the house arrest to get him to lower the bail.’ I looked at him. ‘House arrest? Why?’ ‘He seems to think you’re a flight risk.’ I looked at him in shock for a. "No, son," Mort answered. "I want to talk to Mr. Winchell again." He began walking down the hall. "Again? You talked to him already? What did he say?" "That arrogant son of a bitch wouldn't even listen." He held up the giftwrapped box. "But _this_ should fix things." "You're gonna try and bribe him? Oh, boy that'll really mess things up." "I'm not sure how, Sid, but trust me, this will work. Just don't ask me how or ask where I got it." Mort stopped at the door to Winchell's classroom and.