You Only Live Twice

April, 1964

Part Iof a new novelThe Geisha Called Trembling Leaf, on her knees beside James Bond, leaned forward from the waist and kissed him chastely on the right cheek."That's a cheat," said Bond severely. "You agreed that if I won it would be a real kiss on the mouth. At the very least," he added.Gray Pearl, the madam, who had black lacquered teeth, a bizarre affectation, and was so thickly made up that she looked like a character out of a no play, translated. There was much giggling...