I was too afraid to even attempt to stop him. He nodded for me to finish the rest. I complied, relieved that that was as far as he went. -----------...--------------------------------------------------------------------part four As angry as I had been just a minute before, now I felt defeated. I was also amazed. Like a little boy, I took Bill's hand as he led me back toward the deep end. Laura looked up at me from the water. "Dell-boy, what do you think? Would you like to touch it?,". I suggest that there was no treason on the part of this man, only misguided passion." No treason on Drayson's part, perhaps, but what of me? To whom did I owe my loyalty? Drayson was a weapon no less than the sword he had carried and I had turned a weapon of Achaiea against a man of High Canyon in defiance of our peace agreement. It had not been Queen Selay, nor any other, the responsibility was mine. As he intoned the words of doom, the face of Lyonidas was as sad, in a. ..as I started to wonder if anything was going to happen my wife started bringing the conversation around to looks and being an older woman to which he quickly took his opportunity to tell her he thought she looks amazing and how her husband was a lucky man .."do you feel lucky "my wife asked him .. "what do you mean " he asked my wife walked around the kitchen island to where he was sitting placing her hand on his lap ..."do you feel lucky " she said again with a smile ... he smiled back. After 'interrogating' these girls for some time, the two policemen would be satisfied that there was nothing wrong with the House of Joy and would return to tell Madame the good news. Other than the two girls the policemen 'interrogated', Madame and her Top Girl would be the only staff in evidence and all clients were warned off because Madame was told two or three days before a raid.When the next scheduled raid was due, Madame was pre-notified in the usual way. However, there were only the.