“Well come on. I’m dying of suspense here.”With shaking hands and equally shaky legs, Tanya jittered over to the bed. Keeping her body between I...ona and the dress, she carefully and methodically, extracted it. Holding the hanger to her chest, she turned round. Iona’s eyes went as wide as saucers.“God. It’s beautiful.”Tanya steeled herself and turned the dress round. Iona’s jaw dropped.“It looks a lot better on, plus, I was thinking, if I a got a veil that was long at the back, maybe down to the. The Honourable Diana Featherstone, née the Honourable Diana Sturgess, and lived in England for the first part of her life, until she came here when she was ... well I won't say how old, but she already had a sixteen year old daughter."Ayda eased Sharon's evident embarrassment by saying, "I was thirty-six when I first met my husband, so I really do know about Western life and can compare it with the harem. Shall we go and sit over here and have some coffee?"As they sat down, Sharon noticed that. I look at her with a kind of contempt and speculate that this is as good as her pathetic little life gets – she is an ageing single mother on benefits living in a shit hole she can’t afford to repair and the only fellow – who had convinced her that ‘beauty is only skin deep’ but maybe not himself – betrayed her with a gold digger who subsequently took him for his savings. I guess I’m no better: a sad middle aged bastard in a run down town preying on vulnerable woman. ‘Do you want to fack me?’. You're so mysterious and quiet. It makes me want to know you more I just can't live without knowing.. and I want to see behind all the layers you hide behind." you said blushing lightly still looking down.You looked up to see he held out his hand as you took it standing up as he easily was taller than you."Well why didn't you just ask?" he said bluntly as you looked at him dumbfounded."I.. you.. you would have showed me?" you said hopefully as he nodded slightly."But you never did ask." he said.