She took extra care to get the little bit of undercurl on the sides and back that Brenda had liked. Now she turned to Zeke for his approval. He looked...Brenda’s hair over more carefully than the others and said "very good" with more than his usual faint smile. She left quickly to go open her salon. Zeke went back to work on Ashley. After the makeup was finished; he applied a light coating of rose lipstick to the lips. She looks good he thought and began to work on Brenda’s makeup paying. He noticed that she hadn’t said she wasn’t interested. He took that as a positive sign.“So ... am I being rebuffed or not?” he asked.Her hands fidgeted on the steering wheel. He noticed she took several deep breaths.“I guess that wasn’t a fair question,” he suggested.“No,” she said. “It wasn’t.”He smiled in the darkness.“You can’t make love to me,” moaned Agatha.Jim was unbuttoning her dress. It was one of the few dresses she could still wear now that her belly was almost bursting.“I’m not. "So, tell you what. Let me correct that little oversight of mine, righthere and now." There's really no need for you to do that," Ethan casually replied, asshe slid that succulent derriere of hers along the badly frayed cushionof the booth's bench. "I know who you are all right." You do, do ya'?" Yes. Yes, I do. You're Cassandra Newman," Ethan replied, adding rathersheepishly, "I know you might find this hard to believe, but I dobelieve that I have all your calendars." My, my. What do you know?. “Why are you being so nice to me?” Vivian finally asked.“I’ve been the one Matt tormented and know how difficult it can be to deal with. You need a friend,” she replied.“Besides,” she began slowly after several seconds of quiet, “he may be punishing you because of me.”“Why would he do that?” Vivian queried.“Because I cheated on him,” she admitted.“But ... you’re still here with him,” Vivian said questioningly. With a deep sigh, Vickie explained what had happened.“I still don’t understand why.