Isabella helped Clarise until she looked at the clock and saw it was time to get ready for the dinner.  She went to her bathroom and stripped off her clothes.  She lit some candles and poured her favorite bubble bath into the running water and took a deep breath, already feeling her body relax.  She checked the temperature with her toe before getting in, then slowly slipped her lithe body into the warm, bubbling water.  Mmm, that felt so good.  She laid her head back against a pillow and stopped thinking, just enjoying the coziness, like being wrapped up in a warm blanket.  She spoke, "Lights dim," and "music on."  Like the bath, the music was soothing.  Perhaps a little too soothing, as she fell asleep.  She awoke when her mouth took on water, so startled she literally jumped into an upright sitting position.  She looked at the clock on the counter and saw she had let half-an-hour sllip by.  Chiding herself, she quickly finished her bath, then toweled off.  Now she'd done it - she would have to hurry.  She still had to do her fingernails, fix her hair again, paint her toenails and apply her makeup.  Then get dressed and put on some jewelry.  And the piece' de resistance--eau de cologne her Daddy bought her on her last birthday, at one-hundred dollars an ounce.  She had been saving it.  Her Daddy told her the alchemist who made it said it had properties in it that made men swoon.  She laughed to herself.  How funny!  But it was mixed especially for her and, when it reacted with her skin, it smelled divine.<br/><br/><br/><br/>