ainless s ec y cup ae, all at once moved as if by a sudden sense of purpose; I sa pay in kind for my kind reception, I must give tention. So introduce to me one by one. Dotty. Quite dotty, poor old thing.

    t and in skirt  s ty acquisition to toy cupboard in ime, s revenges, tary exile in Morocco, ty. . .  made t ing ted, trico ted, a track of spittle descended ossed to one side; ttle before sill on the floor.

    Serap . Sially, from Paris and still possessed a certain style, even in y and, even if so t a lady tter ted ter, s tensions on top of told me no meet Lady Lucy, aed but ed  sensitive parts and groed, in spite of ty velvet riding . Sed tal affliction. . . ture ore for toria, a ure death.

    Eacory o me; t auty I soon realised stle girls imately. S ; and stayed on after t ter  c little daug, mig?  like my imaginary blonde  uncout in tainer ined tude. In t ty noses for t tter into piano keys for ttle girls must once ea ress, gone out riding on ponies, groo come to dances in ayed over for ies, golf by day, affairs of t by night. had my Melissa, herself, danced here, perhaps, in her unimaginable adolescence?

    I t of all tiful  as pearls going in to dinner in dresses as brilliant as t- surrounded t off by ts of tners, t ineffable perfume of sex and luxury t dreo Melissas bed. And time, noing their head like snow.

    te. to ya trouble yourself. But, no; I must he bed, she said.

    You she bed.

    And, , cackled furiously, jolting me from my bi