Joe was very casual in his attitude to how Abbey was dressed, and his only comment was that she suited the outfit really well. However, he then made a...point of setting out the rules for her role in the party.The rules were few and simple.Abbey had to serve the guests drink and snacks as soon as they requested it.She had to make sure not to spill anything on the guests.She was not to speak apart from saying “Yes, Sir” as the answer to any request.And finally, any infraction of the rules would be. How did I end up in this predicament, in the back seat of a car with five giggling, chattering teenage girls? It was Murphy's doing. Not Ben Murphy, the head of Urology at my hospital. The infamous Murphy who said, "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong."What had begun as a pleasant October afternoon in Phoenix turned rather chilly as the storm clouds rolled in. The temperature dropped at least ten degrees while we were at the park. I shivered on the sidelines watching my teenage daughter. Juliette was exchanging hugs with Marnie, Ann and Susan before she gave Jim a chaste embrace and a kiss on the cheek."I thought I was going to have to shoot you," Juliette said when she turned to Jacob. "I was so mad and so hurt."Jacob's face fell."I was joking with both of you," he said. "I know you know that now but I hope you know that I would have put a stop to whatever has been going on if I didn't think the man was good enough for you — long before he got to the point of asking for my. After about an hour of walking around and meeting only women I started wondering about it. Almost like clockwork it came to me that men were a lot more persnickety about their names and who knew them. I would only get the name of a man from him. Happening to hear someone else speak another's name might let me know it, but it just wasn't the same as being told by the name's owner.It was reassuring in a way, because Caltort had given me his name right off the bat. Of course everyone had heard my.