Our lips were locked together when 2005 arrived, and I could feel her body shivering under my hands as I lifted her off her feet, holding her as tight...y as I dared."Promise you'll never let me go Uncle," Amelie pled, a new desperate edge in her voice."Jamias ma petite, [never my little one]," I promised, suddenly aware of how empty my life would be without her, of how easily she could destroy my life.I had to carry her from the taxi at five that morning, as we had caroused from bar to bar. " Th... thanks." Look, come and sit over here with us, before John's drool floods the room."I roused myself at this outrageous remark."Oi! I was not drooling." Mrs. Wolf interrupted any further repartee by asking the tutor group if we knew where Tim was. A chorus of half-hearted explanations along the lines of 'had too much too drink last night' was finally brought to a halt by a knock on the door."Come in!" The knock was unusual, most people who went visiting at this time of day, just opened. I was alone at home & making tea when the doorbell rang. I opened the door to find Mrs. Aiyer standing there. Alarm bell rang in my head, I knew if I had to go for the kill today was the day. Mrs. Aiyer invited me for dinner, as my wife is not at home. I immediately accepted & offered her to have tea with me, as I am making same. She sat on the sofa in drawing room & I went in kitchen to get tea. While handing over tea mug to her I intentionally let the mug fall in such a way that some of tea. “How could you be such a fool as to walk about outside like that?” said I angrily, for I had feared she would not enter. “I was frightened”, she replied, “and oh! I must get back to mother’s by dinner-time at one, when the Publics and the bake-houses open.”It was a delicious day, and beats in my recollection many others of fevered enjoyment. Little by little I stropped a tall, fine, stout, healthy, country woman, a regular spanker; with white flesh, firm, soft satiny and smelling like new milk..