“Then may I prevail upon you for a pitcher of water and two glasses? We will need them.”Gilly grabbed the items and sat them on the table between ...them with a simple command: “Talk.”Porter said, “What do you see when you look at me?”Gilly gave him a sardonic look. “I see a strong, healthy man.”Porter snorted at her answer, “That is not what I see even though my senses tell me that I am healthy, strong and thin. In my head, I am still 160 kilos of blubbering fat.”For the next two hours he spoke,. I had expected to find a flat to share and not to stay in my lodgings, but I was comfortable and there seemed to be few restrictions, so there I stayed. I saw little of Fred as he was away most of the week and I tended to travel up to London where most of my college friends were at weekends. As a result, it was not surprising that it was Susan whom I got to know rather better, and discovered that she was a very intelligent woman, with an interest in many things. She was anything but the person. Gloria smiled in rueful admiration, “She did keep detailed notes on all the neighborhood pimps, Harold, Pantone, Ramone. Harold especially.”“Yeah, he liked ‘em young.” Before Gertie Oppenheimer moved him from selling flesh into real estate. Arguably, an even more skeevy endeavor.“You’re welcome to look at everything we have, Winter. Sheree Nelson organized all the old files by year. Sabbath came here in ... what was it... 1995?”“Late 1994. If it’s all right, I’ll come back in the morning, start. One day I was working out in the yard and saw them both just as they'd got back from a function. Carol was wearing a black and white polka-dot dress, which came to about 4 inches above her ankle, and black peep-toe pumps. From what I could see of her legs I was unable to tell if she was wearing nylons although there was a slight sheen which was getting me intrigued. If she was wearing nylons then I wanted to know more about them - the colour and denier as well as whether they were pantyhose,.