Lory wanted a man as much as she wanted the venereal diseases they carried. Yet as this man abandoned her, a woman of prime marrying age, after fussing about so much as whispering her initials lest someone … what? Thought they were involved? That he were desperate enough to do what he was doing, and still found her lacking because she didn’t want to be beaten?

It stung.

It stung, and she was determined to sting back.

She watched him leave silently … picked up a newspaper on her way out, and headed to the post office.