" she said in a slightly trembling voice. She hoped he didn't detect her shakiness or fear."No, Miss Suzanne, you need to stay. I like looking at you ...nd don't want you to go yet," he told her as he closed the gap between them and was suddenly standing about two feet in front of her."Please, Chester, I need to leave," she said in a whining voice. His eyes were all over her body and then he reached out to softly stroke her hair."Of all the women in the church, I've always noticed you. You seem. She recovered a moment later. “Yes, mom, it’s quite wonderful!”She gave her father a quizzical look. Don simply continued to placidly cut vegetables for the salad. After a minute or so, he said, “The only thing about great performances is that women expect that they should be easily repeatable.” He didn’t crack a smile and I knew that I wanted to emulate that relaxed posture. In its way, it was a hundred times cooler than cool.Missus Mason said, “What are you wearing to church, dear?”“I am. ” I told her.I’m glad that you recommended the plastic surgeon put a new cherry back in me.“Yes, I guess that they would have been disappointed to learn that I have been banging you for over two years now.” I responded. “By the way, Dirk called and said to be ready at nine as he will be picking you up.She clapped her hands and squealed her delight.“So,” I said. “I take it you are happy with the way things turned out.”“Yes, very happy. When you let me know that you could not treat me the way. Mike and his son Wesley took a lantern from the RV and explored one of the tunnels stopping when it suddenly ended at the site of an obvious cave-in that blocked further passage. That took the edge off of Mike's urge to explore the inner parts of the cave system.Heather, the girl they had rescued from the accident was sitting cross-legged behind Wendy braiding her hair like she was playing with her dolls. Wendy didn't mind at all because she had received scant attention from her mother ever.