Let's show her what's going on here. Take the phone off loudspeaker a moment, please, darling, and pass me to Fran, if she's there."I told Fran that s...he and Connie should go downstairs and tell the rest of the girls to relax, the emergency was over, they should go back to whatever they had been doing before the interruption. If a woman with clothes happened to pass by they were to pay her no attention even if they recognised her (as many presumably would) but if she spoke to them they were to. I dropped in to visit my oldest friend Peter Gray one summer evening five years ago. Peter, his wife Jen and a distinguished looking couple, our elders by ten years or so, were sharing drinks on the deck. I was quickly introduced to Ted and Willa Franklin who were an amiable and attractive couple. Willa was a statuesque woman with a strong handshake and a ready smile. Ted was extremely fit and Peter announced that he was one the owners and CEO of PTR moulding here in Toronto. He was affable and. Needless to say, we spent a lot of time at Jamie’s house instead.At Jamie’s house, we had to deal with her little sister, Jenny. Jenny was cute. A high school freshman now and all full of herself. She looked a lot like Jamie. Blond hair, blue eyes, a little shorter than Jamie, a little rounder in the cheeks, but anyone could pick them out as sisters in a room full of people.Like my brother, Jenny would always have all of her friends hanging around too, although I didn’t really mind her friends.. I was completely confused. You told me to expect a surprise at nine, but I wasn’t expecting that. You said, ‘Hello, Dan. My name is Barbie, and I’m a gift from your wife.’ I couldn’t speak. I was frozen to the spot. You put your hand up on my chest and pushed me into the room. ‘Close the door, Dan, unless you want an audience. That would be fine with me.’ ‘I quickly closed the door, because you were already taking your coat off, and… you weren’t wearing anything under it! I really wasn’t.
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