It was Friday evening. Perry and Della were at the Miller Hotel beginning another of their weekend trysts. They were now in the hotel restaurant enjoying one of their meals. Perry ordered lamb chops and Della ordered chicken. They had just finished ordering, and the waiter left.

"OK, Perry," said Della, "what happened between you and that pretty client of yours?"

"You mean Miss Robbins?"

"That's right. I want the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth!"

"So, help me Della!"

She chuckled. "That's right!"

"Promise you won't get upset, or jealous?"

"Perry, you know me better than that!"

"OK, OK! Here's what happened: I picked her up at her office. We went to Joe's. It's in the same building where she works in."

"I've eaten there."

"We ordered our meals. Afterwards, I discussed the files with her. She began playing footsie with me."

"Like this?"

She began rubbing his leg with her shoeless foot!

He smiled. "Yeah, that's right! And then, she did something very provocative: She unbuttoned the top two buttons on her dress!"

"Like this?"

She also unbuttoned her top two dress buttons!

"Della!"

"Stop being so uptight, Perry! It's just the two of us alone, right now."

"You're right! Anyway, yes, like that. At that point, I told her to cool it. I admitted that I was not unattracted to her, but that there was someone else that I…have an interest in."

"Someone else?"

"That's right."

"Would that someone else be…"

"Yes, it would, Della."

"Oh, Perry!"

She got up and went over to him. They hugged and kissed.

At that moment, the waiter came by with a bottle of red wine. He poured a sample into Perry's glass. Perry drank it.

"Most excellent."

"Thank you, sir." He poured more into the glass, and also poured some into Della's. Then he left.

"You'd better sit back down, Della; you're barefooted!"

"Right, Perry!"

She quickly sat back down.

"OK, after you called her out, what happened?"

"She capitulated. She buttoned her dress up and put her shoes back on. The rest of the meal was spent with us just talking about the documents she gave me. Afterwards, I escorted her back to her office. She paid me the rest of my fee, then I left. And that was that."

"Perry, I'm very proud of you!"

"Thank you, Della!"

The food came. After the waiter left, Perry picked up his glass. "To resisting temptation!"

"I'll drink to that!"

They toasted and drank. Then they enjoyed the rest of their meal.