CHAPTER SIX Back in their tiny apartment that night, Ralph and Barbara each lost themselves in private activities, grateful for anything that allowed them to avoid conversation with each other. Meeting after the "class", they had avoided each other's eyes, each absorbed in their own impressions of the afternoon. Every muscle of Ralph's body seemed to be raw and aching, yet strangely relaxed, too, after his prolonged session with the four "Amazons." He felt as though he had gone through a rite of manhood, and although it had been difficult, he had proved himself to his own satisfaction and certainly to that of the girls, who finished the afternoon in an exhausted heap around him. The memory of the extended orgy was confused, but certain images stood out in his mind vividly Jeannie bouncin

