When Barbie gave him the grand tour and showed him the bedroom, he noticed that the only exception to the furnishing scheme was the queen-sized bed. She invited him to sit on the edge of the black crushed velvet duvet, drawing his attention to low sturdy maple headstead and footboard before she pointed out the framed pen and ink drawings on the walls which she said had been done by a friend. He noticed that the mattress gave easily under his weight but did not appreciably depress the area around his bottom. Evidently the mattress had independently mounted compression springs to absorb shock and support a person’s weight without affecting the position and comfort of the person lying next to him. As he glanced around the room, he saw that the spherical finials on each corner of the wooden head and foot boards had strange circular scars around the base of the finials as if something had been repeatedly tied around the base of the wooden balls. When the top of the duvet slipped a bit under his weight and exposed a corner of one of the pillows, he saw that the sheet and pillow slipcovers were made of black satin. Howard grinned to himself and made a mental note that he was probably not the first man Barbie had invited home. The fact that she had bought an exceptionally well made and expensive bed and then had allowed the expensive maple fittings to become marred could only mean one thing; Barbie’s hobby was sex. The marks on her bed indicated that she indulged in sexual bondage on a regular basis. Her purpose in showing him the bedroom was clear; she was inviting him for a romp with her in the bedroom after dinner.