Bennett Untapped

This is post 2 of Section III. To begin at the beginning, go here. Section II begins here. Section III begins here.

Bennett had snapped shut the paper and fixed her with the stare that made undergraduates go weak in the knees. “I suppose my problem is that I just don’t understand the etiquette. When my new toy-boy friend encourages me to ‘dump the bitch, make the switch’—”
(“Where does he pick up these expressions?” Gwen wondered.)
“—should I a) sneak out to the car for a quickie so that no one’s the wiser, b) bring him home, make a clean breast of it and move to San Francisco to live happily ever after, or c) openly explore my untapped sexual potential (as I believe Chloe puts it) right here, with your blessing and, perhaps, participation?”
Gwen clattered her coffee cup in the saucer. “Don’t be ridiculous, Ed.”

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