Is it possible that Marilyn accepted such a statement? Three naked people and a television.

"I didn't know what to do," she says. "Both of the men had hard-ons."

They must have been watching the price is right.

"It was his apartment. I moved in. We had only set the date, no invitations had gone out, no facilities booked. We were in the looking stage."

What must have the fiancé have been thinking? We do not know if Marilyn was a sound sleeper. Perhaps whatever was to happen during the television watching might have gone on unnoticed if Marilyn had only kept the air-conditioner going. Did I mention that it was a cool evening in the fall with no need for air-conditioning? Did I mention that the apartment was one of those two-level townhouse jobs made of wood frame and covered by plaster and lathe? The walls are thin, and shift. The bell of a cat tinkling downstairs can be clearly heard on the second floor. The sound of laughter from a young woman, almost twenty, makes its way upstairs, transmitted by air and wood.