He knew that Lucy had got less conservative all of a sudden, but this, combined with what had happened the other night, threw even him. ~~~~~They were...all sitting down, watching TV that night, that is non-porn films, when Lucy said, out of the blue, "I am glad I came out and left the conservative Lucy behind. Now I can have much more fun and one day maybe be like Karen," she laughed. Dave, James and Jo all looked at her with open mouths, surprised at what they were hearing."Well, Karen is. He reached for my elbow and I was able to rise and make my way back to my place, his hand on my arm reassuring, encouraging. I reached the back pew and slipped in. Looked round. Where was he? There was no sign of him and it was quite impossible that I could miss him, so out of place in the conservatively dressed congregation. By the way – don’t take my last comment as judgemental, please. Not everyone was formally dressed in suits. But though there were a few pairs of jeans, there wasn’t any. Now she looks at herself in the mirror and sees only Sylvia. The poems are already forming, unbidden, those lines practised hour after hour."... And a love of the rack and the screw.And I said I do, I do.So daddy, I'm finally through.The black telephone's off at the root,The voices just can't worm through... "She applies magenta lipstick, tidies her eyebrows and thinks, Do I know you any better than I did the first time Ruth mentioned your name? In the mirror, Sylvia smiles back. It is a young. Lee's mother said she would drink a Vodka Tonic, Tad's mother had the same, aunt Kate had Rum and coke.When the waiter came back Tad ordered for the ladies and then ordered Bourbon with ice and water on the side for himself and white wine for Lee.The waiter asked if he could see Tad and Lee's ID.Lee took her drivers licensee out and handed it across the table to him.The waiter said Thanks mam I thought you might be younger than twenty one.Tad handed him his. The waiter apologized and told Tad.