The Rent a Man BluesChapter 5
What Raleigh had come to find her mother about, was to ask her advice about something. While Bob and Megan had been tiptoeing through the minefield of their attraction to each other, Hamako and Raleigh had "taken a walk" around the yacht, so they could be apart from Akio. That's because they were talking about him. "So you agree we should work on Akio and break him down?" asked Raleigh. "I don't know what that means," said Hamako. "We tease him, and get him all worked up, and then...