He grimaced. I am in the sissy army, he thought.Suddenly Bunny landed on the barstool next to him, descending."Hi!" How did you do that?" New shoes! Y...u like?"He looked. Bunny was wearing tightly buckled pink Mary Janes.Springs were attached to the soles of them, under which was another sole. He laughed. "Bunny indeed. You are a hoppinghappening! But I thought you were sick. You left me." Oh, useless, don't be petulant," Bunny squealed, wrapping herarm around his. "I got filmed today, got. " Okay. Tell it like it was," said Claus. He surreptitiously switched on a hidden recorder.Zenobia did, more or less, tell it straight. She began with the abduction of herself and Mary Anne by the car thieves Eddie and Brian. She described the journey to the coast in Martin's van and the abduction and rape of Cindy Smith. She described Mustapha and his part as Captain Carruthers' agent and co-owner of the Scarlet Sombrero and other property in Mexico.She told of her surprise at the coincidence. At least Carly was with her mom tonight,and she wouldn't have to face the wrath of the day care center,and their extra fee, by retrieving Carly late.I tried to intervene. I hated to see people humiliated in frontof the entire office just because Thornton enjoyed it."Come on Bob, Melissa knows what she has to do." Just shut up, Miller, this is none of your business. You'vealready proven you haven't got the guts to take care of realproblems." He didn't even bother to turn around to look at me;. Oh, yeah! But she was bothered by it, too. Why wouldn't she be? She'd be conflicted, at this point, for any number of reasons.I suspected that one thing Brenda was probably afraid about was my future behavior around other people. I mean, just about every human has had the embarrassing experience of being "humped," or nuzzled in their most private place, by an obtrusive canine. Brenda might well be afraid that I'd try to give her a cross-species tongue-job at some terribly inappropriate moment.