"Sleep tight, dear. And put some thought on this. For a few days and weeks you're secure as my girlfriend. Oh, my dressing room is next to my bedroom. Put on what you want from it when you wake up. Nighty- night."

"Nighty-night to you, Zelda. And thanks for this lovely nightie."

His now-soft voice sounded like so many other girlfriends who'd stayed with me!

*

Next morning I awoke to the smell of bacon sizzling, coffee bub- bling and Paulette's heels clicking on the kitchen linoleum. I walked down quietly in my robe, overcome by the wonder of it all, saw Paulette her back to me, hair tumbling down, cooking breakfast. So homey and natural! This Hippie was wearing sheer but evident hose, and heels. And a very ornate fluffy apron. Paulette turned cheerfully to me, smiling a warm smile made a zillion times more warm by the sun-orange lip- stick she wore. Her kiss on my cheek left a bright Cupid-print. I kleen- exed my cheek, blotted her lips.

"I'm glad I still can teach you some things, like blotting your lips. Shuckins, Paulette you're at home in hose and heels without my help. I was looking forward to helping you there."

"Oh I've been practicing this morning and figgerin' things out. This goes for any woman. If you can feel like a woman, you are a woman. Your attitude, plus your borrowed clothes made me feel so feminine that it isn't really so surprising that now I am a girl.” Paulette pirou- etted dizzingly, spinning her pleated skirt and crisp-white under-petti thigh-high-curtseyed deeply, and got back to her bacon.

The milkman coming in without knocking (as he usually did at my place) didn't throw me I could see there was nothing wrong with the scene. But Paulette drew her breath in sharply, covered her now superb- ly-evident breasts like a naked Eve, even though wearing my bulky sweater and pulled her skirts down taut under the table. The milkman stumbled down the steps, clumsied into the sharp bushes at the bottom while nearly breaking his neck looking back.

"Paulette!" I admonished sharply, "Don't ever do that modesty-and- cover-up routine again unless you want to date the man! Its the most provocative thing you can do!"

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