......therewere piles of dirty crockery everywhere. "You can get that lot cleared away and then you can cook us some dinner.Pasta and chilli, and it ...ad better be on the table by 5.30 or you'll be forit" and with that the two women returned to the lounge. Looking at the clock she realised that there was no time to be wasted andimmediately set to clearing up. As she finished the first bowl of dishes sherealised that she hadn't said anything since arriving, not a word to try andget out of the. We really shouldn’t have been going to my apartment. We’d emailed a lot, though. I felt comfortable. Plus she would be leaving in a few hours. Part of me really thought that we would kiss, talk, laugh. That other part of me knew exactly what would happen. These two parts of me are often at odds. The latter almost always wins. We got to my apartment and I showed her around. We sat on my couch and she was shy and blushing and silent. This, of course, forced me to not be shy. Sometimes I get into. It was getting dark by the time they got into Wychbold, where they'd agreed to spend the night so they wouldn't have to go to Amherst before the meeting the next day.It was definitely a lot colder in Michigan than it had been in the panhandle of Florida, and their week down there spent mostly outside in spring-like conditions made it just seem colder still up north. In spite of the fact the trip back was less stressful than the trip down south had been, they were all still road-tired by the. Dressed they all wandered back to the main building, Rita still in a mild form of shock. In the drawing room they sat and as Toby outlined the “tests that Rita would need to partake before he was happy. Firstly, they needed to be sure that if a non-chipped person was to partake the signal would be transmitted and to the receiver which they needed to have set up in the study… to this end Tony announced “Alan as a bonus would be allowed to “play overnight with the mistress” (his words not mine).