I guess I'm just a frustrated performer! But as I was just recovering from a messy divorce and as Claire didn't seem to have a boyfriend, that was ju...st something I was going to have to put on hold. But I have to say I've always liked the admiring looks I get from the boys when they think I'm not looking – I'm a natural tease.We were getting so much male attention in the bar that we really weren't managing to get to know each other a whole lot more. Every time one of us got up to go to the. I felt terrible. I knew she was upset - but how could I face her,dressed this way, after what had happened? I hadn't been able to tellher about my dressing - mostly because of how things had turned outwith Suzi, I was terrified that she would just leave me - and now I wasstuck between a rock and a hard place. The only way out from underSuzi's thumb was to come clean to Tanya, and possibly everyone else. Mymother! God, no! But in doing so I would be risking it all. Tanya wouldsurely freak out to. I excused myself and went outside to the corridor to wait the news; after half an hour the doctor's office door opened and I was asked to come inside. Natasha's facial expression was different, I could not read her thoughts, but she seemed at times joyful, at times worried, even preoccupied, but at no time indifferent."Well Mr. Sorensen, your wife can't have an abortion, with her age it's very dangerous and her life may be in danger"I didn't know if that was the truth or if he had convinced her. "Oh, yeah." Howard started to lift his foot, but then he stopped. "Wait a minute," he said cautiously, his eyes narrowing. "How do I know it's yours?"Patty looked up at Howard, and then rolled his eyes skyward. "Heavens be merciful," he wailed in dismay, "'tis not like the old country, where at least a wee folk can expect that the locals know the legends and lore. Och, what a bunch of unread illiterates!" Patty looked back at Howard and sighed. "I'm a leprechaun, you silly man. Us wee folk.