Then he relaxed though he looked shaken.“Rudolph, what happened?”“Brad, Mister Mason had a growth that should not have been there. We removed it...”Missus Mason said, “Don, what is Rudolph talking about?”Mister Mason reddened. “Doctor Kramer found a suspicious growth on my stomach. I was to go back Tuesday for an out-patient procedure to have it removed and biopsied. I did not want you to worry needlessly. I think I will ask him to look again before he does anything to be sure there is something. I drank way too much at dinner and I'm about to pop. You don't want me peeing on you, do you?" Susan asked as she hoped he wasn't going to frustrate her little scheme."OK, but how are you going into the dorm like that, baby?" Ron asked, looked at Susan sitting there next to him with no bra or sweater on and her pants lewdly unfastened."No problem," Susan said as she pulled her sweater on without her bra and quickly fastened her pants so she could slip into the dorm and go to the bathroom --. I'm happy with that. Very happy." Her arms tugged me. "Alan, do you think we could..." I'd love to, but are you ready?" I had a C-section. They didn't mess with the playground. If we're gentle. Belly's still sore." Baby."Giggle. "That's why..."I sighed. "You still have a sense of humor." And very tender nipples, but in a whole lot less playful direction." We can skip the nipples, then," I said."But this. I miss this. Really do." A nice, gentle..."She kissed me. "Yes, we'll start off gentle. But. Then, alone in the house, I paced around the kitchen, my mind racing, my hand playing constantly with the slim white test in the vain hope that its message would disappear or at least change to something less frightening.It didn’t; I was pregnant!'But how could this be?' Okay, my menopause hadn’t started yet but I would be fifty-two this year, for Christ’s sake. 'And who could the father be?' Both my husband and my ex-lover Tony had had vasectomies long ago.Had one of those operations failed?.