RENÉE PRIDEUX - LOUNGE BAR<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">"I've ordered a pet of my own, Renée, but she has not been delivered yet. I trust I can count on you to help break her in?"</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><strong>"Oh? I thought you'd never order your own pet, you with your fussy standards. I mean finding a virgin dog is almost impossible and finding a talking virgin dog is such a difficult order I'm surprised Monsieur Marc thought seriously to cast his net wide enough. But if he has found you one then she'll be a pretty price... so... you know my dear, be careful you don't gamble too much away."</strong>I winked at him over the rim of my glass. I had heard the stories of William staying up at the card tables all night and I knew never to expect to win at the casinos. For me going there was a social thing, a place to meet friends, to talk and have fun. I almost always lost - you only had to look at the places to realise the odds were stacked against you, but it bothered me that William seemed to think otherwise; that he could win.<strong>"It would be tragic to finally have the puppy of your dreams within reach then be unable to afford her, non?"</strong><br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">"I did rent that Dachsund out, but I made a terrible mistake. I let her drink, and every inhibition she possessed fled her.  I was forced to bind her, arms and legs to keep her from pleasuring herself again and again on that rounded knob on the leg of my dining table.  I swear she actually rubbed the varnish off, and exposed bare wood."</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>I laughed out loud,<strong>"Let that be a lesson to you. Never mix alcohol and pets. That's what my old grandma used to say. Well, actually she said 'never mix alcohol and sex' but that makes no sense at all."</strong><br/><br/>Laurenne ordered her meal and our food arrived. We ate at our table in the lounge. I liked eating in there, the informal atmosphere was fun. Within an hour we were finished. I washed down my dessert with a second Ricard and then, my head pleasantly a-buzz with the anise flavoured alcohol, found myself in a mood to go look at The Cages and see if anything new and fun and vulnerable had come in.