Anything else?" Any chance I can get a studio?" asked Will."On the wish list." When do we move?" Anne asked."If we find something, at the start of the...new semester. Okay?" What if you find something all of a sudden? Won't they want a deposit or something to hold it until we can all see it?" Saul suggested."I can give them something, I suppose," Mary said doubtfully."Look, I've got about three thousand dollars from the work I've sold at the stables and to Saul's dad, and more coming. Why don't. "I've got a counter-proposal. After performing this bizarre-sounding act which you describe, you stay around. When the baby comes, you buy us food and stuff and help take care of it." Hmmmm. If I were to stay around, I fear that I would be strongly motivated to repeat that bizarre-sounding act on a regular basis. This would greatly increase the chance that your belly would start to swell. But I would need to be able to repeat the act." That could be acceptable. What about I let you do it at. Progress was slow, but it was sure and damned good, especially in my master bedroom. Julia went to town decorating our bedroom. She "went to town" many times, and when Corvallis didn't have good enough stuff, she went to bigger towns to look at what they had. But eventually it all started coming together. The bed arrived pretty quickly, with half a dozen spare sets of sheets, so we started sleeping in that room. We were premature doing that, because Julia hadn't even decided on the carpet for. And it would be pleasurable for both of them if he gave it."You've got me wrong, Karl," she said, lowering her voice. "I don't want money. I don't want a promotion. I want a piece of the action. I want some of what Mary Ellen's hogging to herself." Look, about this morning, Veronica, I was uptight. Tense. Big things are brewing and I'm nervous about them." Karl, I want you." Veronica's plea was as simple and straight forward as she could make it. She went around the desk and perched on the.