It helps clear my mind and keeps my body in reasonably fit condition. I abhor riding in groups or even with another person, simply because it takes to... much concentration to keep from hitting them, keeping them aware of what I'm doing so they don't hit me, trying to carry on a conversation when I've barely got breath to keep my legs pumping, etc.Mostly, I start from my house and take one of five or six different loops that eventually bring me back home after doing anywhere from 20 to 60 miles.. Bruce did the same and when the waitressleft he took my hand again and said, "Don't turn so red or she mayrealize you're a boy and then wonder why you're wearing girl'sclothes." I hadn't thought of that and quickly tried to composemyself.The rest of the meal went by okay. When we were done eating thewaitress came by and dropped off the check and made small talk whileshe cleared the plates. "So, what sort of father daughter activitiesdo you two have planed for the day?" I could have died! . Ah, there’s many a middle-aged man in Stuffett who’d love a romp with Dolly Harder. But Dolly’s cold and snobby and cruel to the lower orders.So this was the ‘Middle England’ Whist Club. A little oasis of refinement in a dreadful, rough Northern town. Very elegant and superior, of course. But not exactly dripping with popular appeal. So what was Marjorie’s bright idea? And why did it turn the ladies on so strongly?Marjorie had handed round some glossy leaflets advertising next year’s. The maid decided that she didn't want to be a maid anylonger. She forced the princess to switch clothes and horses with her,and is assumed to be the princess when they get to the distant land. Itis then that the real princess is sent out to tend the geese. In the endthe King learns of the plot, and orders his son to marry the realprincess, the goose girl, and punishes the maid.Ruth marveled at how a chance encounter with a slightly addled girlcould be transformed into such an entertaining tale..