She looked shyly at Willy. He seemed like a real nice man, the sort she could settle down with. She wondered how Erica handled Shaun. He was just as nice, she thought, but they had been dating for some months and she knew most men wanted to do it after a while. Maybe Shaun really was the gentleman Erica was looking for. If a man couldn't wait until after marriage for sex, then the cousins would have nothing to do with them, that was agreed.

"How about this party we know of?" Shaun asked.

"No, I don't think so," Erica said. "We have to get up early."

"Come on," Shaun said. "Your cousin just arrived; you have to show her things. You'll be awake in the morning."

"Guaranteed," Willy said, and Amy thought Shaun had a hard time keeping a straight face.

"No, really," Erica said. "It's real nice of you, but…"

"That's settled then," Shaun said. "If we're that nice, you can't turn it down. Besides, people want to meet you."

So they went.

It was a dark street, and the houses were large and old. Amy began to feel nervous as they walked up the steps to one of them. She glanced at Erica, and her cousin gave her a look that said she would get them out of the situation very fast.

There was music playing as the door opened to reveal a sophisticated looking blonde, somewhere in her twenties, dressed in a white blouse and a black skirt, with a slit on the side.

"Shaun!" the blonde cried. "Willy, wonderful to see you?"

They went inside the dark, shadowed hall. "Rhoda," Shaun said, "this is Erica, and this is Amy, her cousin we told you about."

"Ah, yes," Rhoda said, and gave the girls a long look. She smiled. "Wonderful! Come this way."

Amy got a shock as they walked into a large room at the back of the hall. It was cluttered with furniture, but there was only one person there, a man in his forties who got up and came over, his tall, thick body swaying a little.