She sat at one of the computers and retrieved a square pocket magnifier from her bag. Leaning close to the display she read the screen through the mag...nifier."I thought you were hitting the books," he remarked."Yes, but the catalog is on the computer." She removed a spiral stenographer's notebook, flipped through pages and jotted down catalog numbers. She leaned back, removed her glasses and covered her eyes with her hand. "Oh, this is so difficult. The screen is so bright and the type is so. Deep down ... that she wanted more. She wanted a man. I think that she only kept our ... um ... affair going because she loved me so much; because she knew that I needed her so much. She’d make me do things that were more and more outrageous. She tied me up a lot. Sometimes, she’d strip me naked and tie me up in so much rope that I couldn’t move an inch. And then she’d leave me on the bathroom floor and go out for hours and hours; and when she came home, I’d peed and made a mess, and she’d. She had a list ofinfo she needed for everyone, but it still came as a surprise when shemeasured my head for a wig.Three weeks before the performance, which was going to be a matinee andevening performance, the costumes arrived. They were handed out in bagswith our names stuck on them so that we could all take them home and trythem on. Miss Slater took me to one side and suggested that I try mineon at school with her help. I agreed readily to this as I couldn'timagine my Dad being over. So what?'Obedient to my boss, I paid for lunch with his credit card, then we agreed that we would cancel the planned visit to Bondi beach, heading instead back to his hotel suite to continue what we had started in the water taxi. As we walked out of the restaurant towards the busy nearby road, hoping to hail a passing taxi, we noticed that our water taxi was still at the ferry wharf. Yes, he was free. So we hopped in and he headed back across the harbour to Gerald's hotel in Circular Quay..