"We were silly girls then. We thought only D. M. Thomas's The White Hotel and Helene Cixous and Anais Nin's Delta of Venus managed to match our state of excitement. We were at it all the time. You were my first woman, as you probably don't remember." "I know that, don't be cruel." Martha stopped the car at the Parliament Street light and for a moment the only sound heard was the signal light ticking. "We had a private double entendre about the Bright Street cul-de-sac."