Although she faked sleep, she lay awake for a long time before true sleep overtook her tired brain.Inside the Retreat, Jeff, along with others, was si...tting in the living room waiting for word of his wife and Selina when he suddenly sat up straighter as Ship spoke in his mind."They're back?" Arlene asked.But Jeff was shaking his head. "No," he said, drawing the word out. "Ship assured me yet again that Selina and Di were okay, but Ship wants to discuss something with me." We'll go with...". I put on a matching pair of pink socks and raced down to the kitchen. I quickly ate breakfast, keeping an eye on the clock the whole time. It was twenty minutes until eleven and I wanted to get out of the house before the clock began to chime. I tossed my bowl and spoon into the sink and grabbed my purse before racing out of the house. ‘Hey Colleen,’ I heard as I whirled around to see who just startled me. ‘Hey,’ I said as I realized that it was my neighbor Alexandria. ‘Did I catch you at. “We’ll explain that tomorrow after the prep and as you settle you’re your special seat in the back row of the Bijou when the lights go down and it’s so dark no one around you can see what’s going on. That’s all I can say for now, except that you must honor and strictly adhere to the Bijou pledge throughout the afternoon and DO AS YOU’RE TOLD.”“Ummm, can you at least tell me this,” asked a worried Alice, “ Am I going to be made to walk home buck naked, like I’ve heard college sororities make. Inevitably I suppose, this led to an ever-increasing rift with my wife. She started going out with her single friends when I was training during the week, only going out with me at the weekend when we would go to a good restaurant for a meal, or a club for a night of drinking and dancing. Even though we were by then leading fairly separate social lives, our home life was still good. In-between the petty arguments we still laughed a lot, we still talked, and as for the sex? WOW!Consequently.