I laid it carefully on the table in front of the girls. "This yours?" I asked."Oh," the one on the left said."Oh my," said the other.Mr. Lartz picked ...t up and studied it a bit. "This was my wife's," he said. "Thank you." He stuck out his hand and shook mine."Go fix this man a place to sleep," he said to his daughters and they scurried out the door. "All our animals was took, even the chickens, so the barn's pretty clean. They'll get you some fresh straw." I got a bedroll," I told him."Them. Here is the story.It was 9 pm when we came out of the restaurant after an excellent gastronomic delight as the birthday treat from Sir. He asked if we would like ice cream of our choice as dessert from the parlor at the entrance of the restaurant. I told him that we would leave after the ice cream, giving a meaningful glance at my friends.But Sir disagreed, saying, ” I’ll get you the ice cream on one condition that you all will spend more time with me. I know you have a free weekend and you can. About a month later I came home to find that they had had a delivery of paving slabs and sand delivered that had been dumped on the pavement, William was at work and Rachel was trying to move the slabs by herself here is my chance I thought, so I trotted across and offered my assistance, in no time at all I had them and the sand safely stored at the side of their house though I was now dirty and sweaty she thanked me with a hug and one of Williams cans of beer, He is supposed to be doing the. It was small things at first, asking him to go out with her instead of going to the club to visit. In the last few months, though, she had started telling him outright that he shouldn’t be visiting his ex-girlfriend while he was in a serious relationship with her. It had put a strain on both of them but she hadn’t given him an ultimatum. Yet. He felt it would only be a matter of time before she forced him to choose, and he knew that if she pressed the issue rather than letting him make his own.