"She handed me a pair of silk panties and watched as I put them on. I was too dazed to really understand what was happening, but the panties seemed to... fit me very snugly. Ann then handed me a silk dressing gown which she fastened for me. Finally she gave me a pair of slippers to put on my feet.The slippers were open toed and had a slight heel.Once I was dressed Ann told me to sit back in the chair while she brushed my hair. When she had finished she smiled and said to Dr Knowles,"Well doesn't. " If he meant what Rick THOUGHT he meant, he was worried that Rick was going to dump Teela in the near future... "I think we're doing okay." Good," Frank nodded. "Sex been okay? If you need a place, use her room; I'd rather that than to have ta pick you two up at the police station."Rick rocked again. "Okay. I think we're fine..."Frank nodded. "Once her mama got goin' she was hard to keep up with -- you know? A man can only shoot so much juice..." Oh." Rick looked stricken."That a problem?". I tossed the boots, one at a time, backward into the bed of the truck.“That’s it, ba ... Buddy,” I said. I let the tears run for a bit. “Everything I had. That’s what’s left.”He reached over, consoling me with a touch.“I’m sorry, Mimi.”I sniffled, “Let me call the landlord.” I picked up my phone, ran through the contact list, punched his number. Got his receptionist.“Tell him that he can clear it ALL out. The insurance company’s getting pictures. They should pick up the car next week, too.”“I’m. ” Next morning, he was busy in the shed for a long hour, it was another overcast day, but the garden was his target and the veg patch by Friday was looking tidy. He noticed at tea that night she was looking a little pensive, after tea he showered, changed into his track suit and saw her vanishing into the bathroom, before he fetched his ladder the fitting he had built, and a rope. By 7.30 the place was tidy and the ladder in its cupboard, he sat watching the news a beer in hand. It was just.