“Yes. I’ll leave on the 19th and come back on January 3rd.”“Will everyone else be here for New Years?” Elyse asked. “I need to start plann...ng the party.”“Make sure you invite Alex and Sam,” I said. “And Karl, Nick, and their wives.”“I had them on my list already, as well as the Jaegers, Kallases, Eggerts, and Fergusons.”It sounded so strange to hear all of my female friends referred to by their husbands’ last names. It still felt odd when people called Jessica ‘Doctor Adams’, or when I saw. He found the living room and waited, listening to her retching, intent on just making sure she was okay before he left. He laid her keys on a glass topped coffee table that took centre place of her sparsely furnished apartment. What furniture there was, spoke of quality, but was understated in whites or a slight variation.Sally came into the living room some ten minutes later, very much better and steadier than she had been. Her eyes had cleared and the ruddiness of inebriation had gone.“Look,. Aaga shilpha eddu nintu avala bra bichchi avalannu mele pura bettele madidalu stella anu munde kilitu avala panties kelage sarisatodagidalu. Eega anu sampoornavagi bettele ella munde. Aaga stella nodu rahul ninna hendati tullu wine kudidu hege anandavagi mi mareyuttide. Naanu nagutta houda ok procceed u sweet hot holes endaga ella nakkevu. Mele mole mele wine suiridaga shiplha adannu nekkuttiralu kelage john tulla mele wine hakidaga stella nekkalarambhisasadalu. Ee reeti nekkuva sabda ella kade. I do not know, my Lady. It would be dangerous..." Which would add spice to the coupling, would it not? And I know tricks that the village girls have no knowledge of..." I... I will think on it, my Lady. But now I must go." Indeed, Matty, indeed. Until later, then..."Lady Darnell smiled at Matty's broad back as he now followed the rest of his family back down the hill into the village. Perhaps she would not have been smiling quite so widely if she had known that the coachman was not as far away.