"And you want it more often," he queried.
"Well, God. It seems to me to be unnatural to have such a low s*x-drive," she said matter-of-factly .
Eddie laughed out loud. A hard bitter laugh which startled and confused her. She jerked her head around to look at him in a wide eyed consternation.
"I don't think it's funny."
"Please believe me when I tell you, I know. How well I know! It's amazing. What a rotten coincidence!"
"Coincidence?"
"Yes ... we're in the same boat."
"I don't follow you."
"Alyce is just like David."
"I see." She dropped her gaze again, afraid that she had gone too far in revealing to him an intimate fact of her married life to a comparative stranger.
Then Eddie reached out, on impulse, his huge paw settling on her bare knee, gently. The smooth, tanned flesh was
