" "Way." "At your place?" "His." "Jee-zus girl. You don't half pick 'em. Was he any good?" "Careful. Don't want his head to swell any more." "Oh, he's...�� there." Ryan called out, "Hi Becky." Imogen held the phone out between them, its speaker vibrating, "Ummm, hi. Hope you're gonna take good care of her." "So do I." Imogen shoved him again. "Becks?" "Yeah." "Can you fill in any more blanks?" "Nothing I've not already told you. I'll ask around and text what I find." "Thanks." "We still on for. Arthur, aided and abetted by Larry, had persuaded her to bring her painting of the stream with her.Harriet, Arthur's mother, was entranced by it. "It's stunning," she exclaimed. "Light and dark, the trees on the bank but, most of all, the movement."Dorothy embarrassedly smiled and shrugged. "Thank you," she said. "Having seen the painting you did which Arthur's got that means a lot to me." The movement, Granny," asked Larry excitedly. "How did she get that?" I don't know, Larry. I've never. “I am willing to try it, Jessica. I can see your argument; I think it will be welcome to Reg, once it is explained to him.”It was. The thought of making love to a single wife at a time, showing her how much he loved her, appealed to him as a formerly lone offspring. Sharing his love with Frances or any other of his wives would be a statement on its own.It was a good beginning for their formal marriage.EpilogueThree weeks after the wedding, the family had moved temporarily to a housing block in. We would get that stuff when we got to high school. Mom wasn’t all that happy about it, since she saw what I scored on the test and simply sighed to Dad. Dad gave her a wry smile and said, “So he’s not going to meet hot chicks at Georgia Tech, I’m guessing.” That was where Dad went to college. Mom had gone to Georgia State, where she became a nurse.“Right now, I think I’d settle for M-Triple-C,” she sighed. That was Matucket County Community College.I didn’t think it was that bad. I mostly got.