“You know, Helen, everyone in the FDT kow-tows to the Russian Envoy.”
“I’d noticed. Aunty xxx Pretty necklace, too. “My mind goes blank when I’m with them. You don’t know what they’re thinking.”
“I do, love. We hugged and kissed her goodbye, hoping the best for her, fearing the worst. I felt tears start to my eyes. Geoff came back a week later, asking for whipping and ball-busting, and then again a week after that. Men were ephemera, fleeting and unmemorable; for us, nothing more than paltry sources of money and a way of avoiding beatings. It’s gratifying to be wanted, very gratifying to be appreciated, and no matter what job you do in life there’s satisfaction in knowing you’ve done it well. However, there were other men, of what nationalities I never knew, who ordered me about in halting French or English
