“Um ... Why do you think I brought you here?”“To talk,” Richard said.“But why here?”“Um ... Because this was Peyton’s favorite place?�...�� Barb ventured.“Yeah. At first when I thought about bringing you here, I thought it would be terrible. That everywhere I looked, I’d see Peyton’s smile and how much she liked ice cream. And you know what? I do. And that’s why I’m here. I don’t want to forget her happy face. I don’t want to avoid the places she liked to go. I want to feel like she’s still near. He had found himself a truly ticklish woman. Suddenly the Emir was a small boy again, torturing the little girl next door by tickling her, long before any thoughts of sex had entered his life. The difference was that Neveen did not have a mother to stop him. When she was reduced to abject tears by his tormenting her he rose and took a whip from one of the eunuchs without her noticing.Whish ... THWACK!As she lay on the bed the whip caught her across part of her back and the tip curled round. As luck would have it, my sister was going to be home and my parents were not. This made my plan of getting them together a bit easier.I called up Leslie and told her what I was going to do. She told me that she and Mary were going to the mall to look at dresses for the dance later in the afternoon. I already knew that my friend Tom had asked Mary to go with him so it wasn't much of a surprise to find out that they were going shopping together. She giggled when I explained how I was setting. Sue danced away from her chair, twirled and shrugged out of the dress, then whirled it around her head as she pirouetted. Coming to a standstill facing us she stepped into a showgirl stance, legs spread wide, arms flung out above her head. We all applauded.She looked truly spectacular. Her Merry Widow corset was split vertically with white panels on the right and black panels on the left, the two halves laced together loosely up the front. In contrast, she wore a black seamed stocking on her.