Within twenty minutes she was standing in his bedroom, peeling her swimsuit and reaching for him. When he talked to her she was very wary of him, and he had a lot of trouble convincing her to take the shell and put it to her ear. XXX Robert took it from her hand and glanced in, and could barely see a motion. The measure, then, was not the time that the thing in the shell had to work, but how hard it had to work. She picked up the shell and held it. And the full truth only came to Robert on the morning after he had taken a virgin and found a gaping wound on his thigh. He couldn’t quite turn it the right way to get the light inside,
