I was still unsure why she had called me and so I asked her why the sudden need to see me again. Her answer completely floored me – ‘because I li...e you,’ she said quite openly. ‘I had planned on us going out for a drink tonight but your other meeting really threw me. After you had gone I decided to call you anyway and here we are.’ I wasn’t sure what to say, after all I was many years older than her and although I found her very attractive, had never considered any kind of relationship other. James had told me that his mother had a second husband, but he hadn’t managed the deed after five seasons, so she had dumped him. She had apparently done the same to the one that followed. She had then given up, believing she had all the children she was able to have.I now knew that the secession of second husbands had also affected James and John. However, she hadn’t dumped John. His political clout and family connections were worth a lot to her. I also had a feeling that in spite of herself,. I wasn't quite so relaxed.I sent off a few chatty emails to let Jeff know what I was doing, but he didn't reply to any of them.It was one thing to have the opportunity to find myself in his absence; quite another to have to go cold turkey.I wasn't becoming concerned, I was becoming unhappy.Why didn't he contact me, if only to say hello? Had being with me constantly been so difficult that he needed a vacation? Had he realized I needed time to figure some things out and decided to give me the. Sommelier with 30-plus years. Restaurants, cruise ships, two years on The Globe.”“Well, it doesn’t surprise me that he’s getting away with it. That the passengers couldn’t tell the difference. The Globe wine label doesn’t give much information. This one has decent nose, pleasant taste. Most palates aren’t calibrated much beyond that.”Vanessa tasted wines at lunch and dinner for three days. She had to take her time because she needed intervals to refresh those sensitive taste buds. Plus she.