On a warm summer day I found myself walking alone, along a narrow country road. I had seen no cars, and no people. Open fields and patches of woods surrounded me all the way to the horizon. The sky was cloudless.

As I walked, I noticed that a car was parked ahead of me, on the right. I was walking on the right side of the road. As I approached it I could see that all of the windows were down. When I reached the car I could not help but notice that an attractive woman was sitting in the back seat. Even more curiously, she was naked. She looked at me, and smiled faintly, as though she knew me.

I quickly looked around to see if I was being set up for a crime. There was still no one all the way to the horizon. There was only the woman and me. She aroused in me both desire and fear of the inexplicable. Part of me wanted to keep walking. Then I considered that if she was dangerous, it would be dangerous of me to turn my back to her.

“Excuse me,” I began awkwardly. “My name is Ted. May I talk to you?”

She nodded.

“I am a decent man,” I told her. “Someone else may not be. I don’t want anyone to harm you. May I get into the car with you?”

She nodded. When I joined her in the back seat she moved away from me, so I backed up too.

“This feels very strange. You’re the first person I have talked to for a long time. It has been much longer since I have seen a woman as beautiful as you are.”

She smiled.

“Your body is slender and in perfect proportion.