It was a strokeof genius. Alice had made an incorrect answer. I held my hand up. "Alice?That was an easy question. You should have answered that. Ten...moredemerits! That's twenty now. Cynthia? Will you give Alice her spankingplease?"Now Alice may be a domme when it comes to males, but she LOVES beingspanked by a woman - and Cynthia is equally enamored of applying her handsto a rounded feminine backside. With a great deal of pretendedprotestation by Alice, the punishment was finally. She answered, “No, I told you that because you had already guessed some of it and she had told you most of it. The reason she asked you over was because the women at work have been after her to be intimate with you. She didn’t know how to refuse without letting them know that she wasn’t interested in men.”“I understand. I’ll let them know to stop pressuring her,” Dan said knowing that this was probably a consequence of Alison’s visit to the diner.“Don’t do that. She would rather pretend that. But apparently, I was in one?"Of course, sir." She nodded grimly, watching over my head, "It appears the glass shard must have done some damage to your memory. We've been able to successfully removed it, but we had no way of knowing how it affected your mind. But rest assured, Lord John, we'll have the best of the best working with you until you make a full rec-" Wait wait wait- Why do you keep calling me 'Lord?'" I interrupted her, "I'm not hearing or hallucinating things, am I? You keep. It were almost as if she were expectin’ me!”“I think she was Julie. Ever since the last time you were here I think Shiro-san’s been expecting you to come back to her. She’s a very wise lady Julie.”Julie nodded and stared at her teacup. “She did say one thing that got me thinkin’ ma-am. I was tellin’ ‘er about ‘ow I’ve bin pretendin’ ter be someone else but mesen and she jus’ laughed an’ said that I ‘ad ter learn wot I was afore I could pretend ter be summat that I wasn’t! I’m buggered if I know.