Said “You and I, well we should forget all about work. We should go out, have lunch, and spend the afternoon somewhere on your birthday. It of cours... would be my treat and maybe, just maybe, if you’re into it all we can spend an evening at a nice hotel somewhere downtown.” That threw Catherine off. What, she and I uhhh together, in a hotel room, and doing what she wondered? This sounds a little odd to me. This is beginning to sound like she wants to do something, uhhhhhh weird, and kinky. I’m. "I'm glad youcan open up to me about it."Okay, that was a little weird. Was me wanting to wear a bra now like aguy crossdressing or something? Was this going to cause problems if Itried to wear cute clothes? I imagined all the weird judgemental staresI'd get if that was the case, but if worse came to worse I figured Icould always swap back, right?"Well," I gave a casual shrug as I grabbed my boobs dramatically, "I'msure as hell not going braless with these puppies." I suppose I couldhave just. Then she put some extra oats in his feed trough and put on her robe again. She limped out of the barn with the lantern and went into the house." I went back to my car down the road and drove home. I was pretty wrung out, and I guess Bess slept good that night, too." The thing is, you see, I couldn't let it alone. I wanted to see that happen again, and stirrin' in my mind was a strong yen to do things with Bess myself." Now, I knew I had an ace to play, having seen what she did with old Peter.. I'm ... sorry about Linda." Thanks. It was hard to come back and find out she loved me really but didn't want to tie me down when she was dying. Then ... I thought for a bit she might be healed. I never had her faith ... never understood it. But," he paused, groping for the right words, "I see something real, in her, in you and Dulcie, in her parents. When she died ... I was half impressed by ... the reality of it all, and half furious with a God who would take her away from me." I know," Peter.