I pulled out a chair and sat down at the table. I felt like a small boy being called to the principal's office."I will not be humiliated and have your... cheating thrown in my face," she said."You dare say that after what you've done?" I shot backShe gave a frustrated sigh."One, I took great pains not to throw my extra-marital activities in your face. You went out of your way to hurt and humiliate me."Two, you picked a woman solely to get under my skin. That short little blue eyed white girl is. As the fabric loosened around her hips, she uttered a long, exaggerated sigh of relief. Then the tall one reached over and pulled it down her legs. “Thank you,” she chirped like a canary about to devour three stray cats. "You’re like a bird that keeps flying in and out of that cage,” he said. “Just to see how long the door stays open. To see if you’re inside or out when it finally shuts.” Her body heaved another disconnected sob, making her breasts quiver while more mascara blackened tears. She was delighted too, her secret fantasies and the websites that she accessed each night all involved interracial sex, always with dominant black, Arab and Asian men taking pleasure in submissive, obedient white girls. It took all of her willpower to refuse the black, Arab and Asian guys at college but she knew that these guys were increasingly accumulating the other english girls and often ‘owned’ (yes that was the word that was used at college-‘owned’) more than one english girl each.. It was hard to determine if he was hearing anything that was said. The man’s behavior concerned Ed. It was as though he had given up on life and was waiting to die.Rather than a single eulogy, the family had decided to have three of them given by different people that had known her in different contexts. Ed had argued that Mrs. Hayes was a woman of subtle complexity. No one person could know all that there was to the woman.Maria spoke as a neighbor, and told stories about how Mrs. Hayes had.