If that's not a sign of one too many, I don't know what is." Oh, relax. If you walked in on Lynne having sex and didn't have a heart attack, I'm sure ...ou can survive talking to me." Christine batted her eyelashes and straightened her shoulders, causing her breasts to jut out a little. The slight widening of her brother's eyes and his quick glance away encouraged her. "You need to stop letting what's happened in your marriage make you think that you're undesirable. You're anything but."He. " And how do we do that?" The way maids like us have done it for centuries, on our hands andknees." What?" We're casting off the mop today, Emma. That crutch gets the job donequickly, but not done right. There's always some streaks, but thatdoesn't happen when you put your face to the grime and really scrub thefloors." Are you serious?" Charles asked, slightly mortified by the prospect ofspending his whole day on the floor of his penthouse with a scrub brushand a dirty pail of water.Jane only. As usual, I reverted to my old nerd self and asked, "Pardon my asking, but what are you doing out here on a day like this?"She smiled up at me slightly, "I could ask you the same question." Well, I was walking my dogs, and," I paused."And what," she spoke up, staring up at me for a few moments, "looking at your face, I think there's more. What's wrong?"This woman was blunt and to the point and her question tore away any reserve I had. I couldn't believe it but the tears began to stream down my. Amen.”We all said amen, and dug in. Typically we’d all eat slowly and sit and talk, but tonight Samantha had plans, Gregg had homework, and Susan had another one of her meetings. Me, I had nothing to do.Near the end of the meal Susan waved her hand over the table, “Jer,” she usually called me Jer instead of Jeremy, “would you mind? I want to get to my meeting a little earlier.”I smiled, “Sure dear.”She smiled back, got up, kissed me on the cheek, and without further ado found her way out the.