I wasn't able to take any leave until the last week of August as I had been on leave in June. I did manage a couple of nights in Plaistow, the first j...ust after our return and another about a week later.Miriam and I continued from where we had left off before the deployment to Canada. She was loving, warm and eager, and I thought that I had finally cracked it. All it needed now was to arrange some accommodation and a job for her, and then she would be able join me in Aldershot. I had looked at. The petticoat I chose for Bob was similar: twolayers of petti, the bottom layer of paper nylon, with a bottom ruffle.The top layer consisted of a crinoline net with five rows of lace trimwith an extra ruffle of crini net at the bottom. It was adorned withmore than two dozen cute little bows of pale pink ribbon. As I'd lookedit over, the paper nylon had made a pleasant rustle that was simply irresistible.I'd seen the dress I wanted for Bob in Hathaway's window as I'd beenrunning errands the. It was the normal Sunday morning scene, sat in church on one of those uncomfortable folding chairs next to my wife beth listening to the vicar give his sermon, he was going on about the evils of alcoholism....again. on another occasion I would have been bored rigid, but this was different, very different.I glanced around at the others, all dressed in their Sunday best, quite busy this morning, around 50 had turned up, good. It felt somehow better knowing there were lots here, more cover I. She walked into my home. I wasn’t certain whether I had invited her in or not. Instinctually I greeted her by reaching for her soaking wet coat and asked her if she would like to remover her stilettos, “for some snuggly slippers instead.”She did. She wanted to. As the gentleman that I was raised to be, I helped her remover her shoes. I slipped my hand onto her shoulder and with the other I gripped her arm and eased her back onto my plush Victorian couch.Oh my God. Her feet. As I slipped off one.