Susan understood that. The town they came from was very small, and everyone knew what each other was doing and to whom.

"So you had a reputation, huh?" Susan asked, knowing it. She too, had had one before she finally escaped to the city.

"You might say I was getting one," Wanda replied.

"I can see why," Susan said, noticing the smooth flesh of her sister's legs. "If you grab every man or boy five minutes after meeting him, that's understandable. Any girl would get a reputation."

Wanda shifted on the couch, and Susan found herself eying the expanse of flesh above her sister's knee. "You do have trouble controlling such urges, don't you, Wanda?"

"Sometimes," Wanda admitted, giving her older sister an impish grin. "But I can… if I want to. It's just that I don't want to. It feels too good to stop."

Susan watched creamier thigh become revealed as her younger sister talked. She wondered if Tommy would remain in her room as she asked him to. She wondered what Wanda would be doing with him just as soon as she went back to work on Monday. She didn't wonder very hard, though. After what she had seen, she knew what her sister and son would be doing as soon as the door closed behind her. Oddly enough, Susan felt no jealousy or anger.

"You really have to ride the subway one of these days, Wanda," she said. She felt no surprise in talking to her sister this way. It was almost as if they had been close all their lives. "You can meet strange characters on the subway." She told then about what happened on her way home.

Wanda laughed, her blue eyes glowing with excitement. "I would want to see who it was."

"Oh, but that wouldn't be any fun," Susan said. "The exciting thing is not knowing who was rubbing against me. Try it and you'll see."