I didn't like having her here listening and possibly watching us, but she was right about it being a perfect chance for Margaret to be with a boy. Mar...aret was not as convinced as me. She had moved a safe distance away from me, not out of my reach, but we were no longer touching either. "I don't know what I want," she said.Paula, always the mediator, offered a compromise that was agreeable to Margaret, but which I found objectionable. "We'll all get under the covers together. If he does. .."Please hold your thought and let me finish. As I understand it right now and I admit I may be wrong, your main objection is to being exposed and consequently humiliated by being present when I have a lover here." You will be a couple of thousand miles or more away from here. So what's the harm in me having a party? Babe I'm asking for permission. I could just have gone ahead and have it. Most likely you would never know, especially if I didn't invite your good buddy Roger to it. For that. If men could not come here and take their pleasures, then they would take them elsewhere and the number of assaults on unsuspecting women would increase dramatically," she continued, "In spite of this, what the House of Joy does is technically illegal, so we are visited from time to time by the local police. There is a new Director of the local Policebot Service who is supposed to be a real hard man, and Li Kim can tell you about him at a personal level."One of the Submissives, who Martha. "We both settled for draft beer with our dinners. I took a long drink before responding."I like spending time with my friends who are into cross-country and snow-shoeing. I like the snow myself, especially as it gives you an excuse to sit in front of the fireplace, drink, read, swap tall tales, drink, eat, and let's see ... drink! I see you are nicely tanned. I gather you went somewhere south for the winter break?" Oh yes! The islands in winter is the place for me. And I have no problems.