" She gave me a fearful look and then said, "She is going to kill me for ruining my dress and getting so dirty."I tried to cheer her up by pointing ou... to her that her ruined dress and getting dirty was not something that she could have prevented. She looked up at me and said "It won't matter." I offered to talk to her mom and explain this but she shook her head saying "No! That will only make things worse." I wondered how any mother could seem so heartless to have put such fear into the heart. ‘Snyder’s charged mama over $1200.’ ‘And that was just a patch job.’ ‘No guarantee.’ ‘And it took them for ever.’ ‘Now mama doesn’t have the money.’ ‘To have it fixed again.’ ‘I’m real sorry to hear that girls.’ ‘Would you fix it when she has the money Eddy?’ ‘If she came in and asked, I guess I would.’ ‘We pointed out you never charged for the tow.’ ‘Or for the work you did do.’ ‘And we don’t think it was because.’ ‘We showed you our panties.’ ‘We thought maybe it was because you saw hers.’. “Melanie, strip!” Jennifer said.Melanie’s eyes got wide, but she quickly removed her top, showing she wasn’t wearing a bra. My mind flashed back to the very first time I had been with her. It wasn’t the same top, but it was similar. She pushed down her jeans and panties and stepped out of them.“Get on the bed. Face down.”“What?”“Melanie, just do what I say. And no talking.”I saw Melanie’s face as she went to the bed. Melanie Spencer was nervous. I had never seen that before, but then again, I’d. I knew I was in no state to face them.Mom has a large antique wooden table, not antebellum but getting that way, if you’ll allow a decade or two. She describes it as Victorian, though why we would date it after an English Queen I’ll never know. There’s a special word for the polished surface of the table, Mom calls it a ‘patina’. Apparently that’s real important, and she won’t let the maid service ever polish it; she uses a special beeswax she buys mail order. When they hold a dinner party,.