`` nick , please , just let us talk to you . `` i suppose now i need to make sure i wear one . '' he looked up at the high bay windows , at the gingerbread mill-work , so carefully restored . to the east was a meadow that belonged to another spread . `` you never feed on any of them . as soon as he had the swimsuit off , he spread my legs open , drinking in the sight of me . `` the shepherd boy , '' said bray , staring at the scrap of yellow paper . 