Chapter Three We recently went out with Petra and her partner to a new restaurant in Ringwood, Roenna has a multicultural palate and over a dinner of Nepalese-style chicken chow mein Petra jokingly accused me of seducing Roenna. Roenna just burst out laughing at that. “When I came onto her she backed off and I had to resort to subterfuge.” Never a truer word was spoken! I had, to all intents and purposes, accepted that there was a bright red line drawn between us complete with a sophisticated alarm system and sirens. In hindsight it could be said I’d initially agreed to this line in the hopes of wearing her down but somewhere along the line the unusual became the norm. A lot of that can be put down to Roenna laying down the law and slowly this tomboy began to change her stance. I mean