..like you said, it's your life. I'm just watchingyou make a mockery of yourself here." You don't think I could stand up to my own mom?" Jemima remark...d,leaning towards the driver seat. "When I got my first job, she came tome and reminded me that if I was gonna stay with her, I needed to pay'board'. I stood up to her then! I reminded her that I was her son,and that she should love me, not charge me!"Maggie nodded, feigning an impressed expression. "How much did youstart paying her?"A sigh was. She didn’t know how much longer she could stand it. She wanted to head straight for sanctuary in her basement office to wait out the lockdown mode, but instead fought down the panic. The fugue must have been one of the tougher programs. Surely most of the features were already activated. The museum would be closing soon and Bill would be gone before long. She was better off waiting before making the trip through the lobby. Finding the main section of the geology wing didn’t take long. It was. "We don't really talk, not about what's important to us." "You mean sex?" Yes, sex!" That may be important to you," he said, "but I find other things important, too." Of course other things are important," she conceded. "But sex is extremely important to a happy marriage. I'm very interested in sex, Rob." Obviously." He frowned. "You showed that tonight." "Rob, oh, darling," she sighed. "Don't you understand what I'm trying to tell you?" "You confuse me, that's what you do." "You try to deny. "She picked the phone up and soon had Robbie's mother on the line, "Yes, I've just talked with them. So, we'll do what we decided, then?"Mom listened a minute, then said, "Yes, I'll send him right over, he'll be there soon. Yes, me too. I will, bye."I figured we were now in deep shit for sure."Okay, Mark, you get on your bike and go over to Robbie's house and Robbie, you'll stay here."I looked at Robbie and then went and got on my bike and rode over to Rob's which was only a few blocks away..