Marie thought that you were too serious.’ ‘I just… haven’t had any real fun for a long time,’ I admitted. ‘Well, now is the time… and th...s is the place…’ Henriette winked. ‘Come, join us,’ Marie offered, extending her hand to me. I stood, blushing as they smiled at me. ‘I’ve only been…’ ‘Shh!’ Henriette shushed me. ‘Come here so we can get you out of those clothes.’ I shook nervously as they undressed me. Marie had such a hungry look in her eyes that I felt self-conscious again, suddenly. "You see, if you did that, and Denise did as well, one of us could get up with you every morning, and we could arrange it so one of us was always there to welcome you home as well. I know it's not perfect, but it would be better than getting up alone, coming home and going to bed alone, and seldom seeing either of us."Denise added, "Yes, and Stan's got the room for it to work. Oh, please do it, Anne. You know you'd hate going to bed by yourself all the time, waking up alone and seldom seeing. ‘So it is,’ she concurred. ‘I don’t have any extra clothes here, either. I’ll put some logs in the fireplace, and start it. Candles. I have candles, too. Actually, I have a hurricane survival kit. Ten gallons of drinking water, flashlights, extra batteries, waterproof matches. Oh, I do have rainwear.’ He fetched the yellow full rain suit and showed it to her. ‘Heavy-weight ribbed PVC fabric with soft polyester lining.’ ‘I’m wet, not cold. No way am I wearing that thing! I’d sweat to death, but. Maria was happy that we were prepared to finance them."Mr Ron, for years Joe and I have had our dream of having a pizza parlour, when Joe told me that the store would soon be available I thought we could not find the finance to start. Your generous offer overwhelms me, I'm so happy." Maria, Joe, this town is very important to my family, we want to see it grow, helping you get started gives us a lot of pleasure plus it is also beneficial to us as a business deal, we all benefit by it."Ron had.