We got to her office and she closed the door. We sat down at her desk and discussed business. As we talked, she was throwing me signs and hints that s...he was flirting with me. She commented on my muscular body and my good looks. I also returned the favor by commenting on her good looks. Finally, we began to talk only about personal things. She told me that she came to Canada 10 yrs ago. She told me that she had been married for 4 yrs and has a 2 yr old daughter. When i heard this, i said “Wow,. 'Specially with Rick. Oh, yes, his name's Cedric, but he's always called Rick." Now," she went on, "what did you get up to? I saw you dance with most of the women there, including Lucinda, lady Eleanor's daughter. Did you give her one? And mother says you danced with Lady Eleanor herself! Good heavens what is it that you've got Ned, are you going to shag her too?" Have you spoken to mother this morning then?" Ned avoided the questions."Yes. She's downstairs. Are you coming down for breakfast?". I suppose there were a few hundred places where someone with binoculars could have spied on us, but by the time I got to that stage of my reasoning, I was captured by Lissa’s beauty as she strode confidently out into the rain and hopped up on the cross-arm of the mast. Is that what they call a jib? What do I know about boats? I’m from Nebraska.What I knew was that I’d love to be watching this scene on a sunny day as we cruised up in the islands in the summer. But I was getting great images in. I told them that I worked in the county library, which was true, that I was doing an Open University degree, which was sort of true at the time and that I had big plans for the future, which was far from true. They saw through the lie."You're a poor little lost sheep, aren't you?" said the girl with glasses. "Law modules? Organic Chemistry? Geology?"I told them I wanted to be a writer one day and they laughed. A lot.Eventually, the cab arrived at the foot of an unpleasant looking block of.