Doug had nothing to complain about with Evening Star's selection, he was just caught off guard. It took nearly an hour for Evening Star and Cactus Flo...er to convince Doug that taking a second woman was the proper thing to do; the clinching argument was how much Cactus Flower's life would be ruined when word got around that Doug had rejected her. That's how, that night, a new voice moaning and crying in pleasure was heard all over the village emanating from the flint knapper's hut.Cactus Flower. It was almost like a perpetual buffet of fruits and pastries as well as seafood dishes fixed a dozen different ways. Never a big fish-food person, I found myself liking almost all of the different ways they had of preparing and serving seafood on Tapato. The trick, I discovered, was never to ask what it was, or how it was prepared.I could sense the sadness in my cousins at their impending departure. Did I tell you I hated goodbyes?“We really don’t want to go,” Julie said as I sat down between. I removed the jacket and hung it in the cupboard under the stairs. This was not normally where I would have placed a coat, but I had noticed that my cleaning lady had always used this space to store her things and my brain said that I must do likewise.I spent the morning making the bed that was once mine, but had last been slept in by my new owner. I cleaned the bathroom that she had used, scrubbing out the bath, basin and toilet. I tidied, cleaned and polished around the rest of the house. As. When I returned home with all my purchases, I put the undies in a cabinet in my workshop. It wouldn’t pay to have my wife discover these things, especially since done of them would have fit her. It would have raised some difficult questions.The next two days, seemed to drag on by. It wasn’t until Friday that my wife told me that she was going to visit her sister for the weekend. She didn’t want to be around with all the noise and clutter that was going to result from my little building project..