"Marcie?" Yes, Miss Bendon?" Stand up and come out from behind the desk for a moment, please."Marcie blinked and hesitated a moment, but slowly compli...ed. She rose from her seat and came around the corner of the desk. Her heels clicked sharply on the floor, her skirt swishing a bit around her thighs. She raised her gaze sheepishly to Laura's and smiled weakly."You look very nice, Marcie," Laura said with a gentle smile."I-I do?" Yes. Have you gotten used to wearing the heels?" Almost, Miss. The guardturned and started after him, but was unable to catch the sprinting figure,now several metres along the passageway lined with the cries and whistles ofprisoners suddenly aware of a beautiful woman in their presence.Heading for the main exit, Jack found his way blocked by a group of officers.One spoke enough English for Jack to convince them of the greater wrath oftheir commander if he was not informed of an escaped prisoner. Within minuteshe found himself before the hastily-dressed. Gross. Get that bedspread off the bed. I can’t believe we did it on that. My grandmother said she made my mother on it, and my parents made most of their children on it,” she told me.I hugged her to me and said, “Well, I guess you were twice as blind, and now you are just sort of blind. The glasses seemed to help, so that is progress. Maybe you have some form of temporary blindness that is finally starting to go away, and you didn’t notice. I hope that is it. If the people at the clinic didn’t. .”He took a deep breath, letting it out in a long quivering sigh as he stayed quiet, not engaging her in an effort to avoid more of her snarky little comments. Besides, for all her smugness she had it all wrong, not that he was going to correct her anytime soon.Sure, he was both anxious and nervous like she had said, he couldn’t and wouldn’t try to deny that, but Joanna believed it was born of embarrassment, humiliation and maybe even a little fear. After all, she was forcing her cross-dressing.