Stepping away to guide Lilly out onto the deck.“Please Anna, you are my guest. I invited you here. Try to enjoy yourself.” “Stephen!” she proj...cted as she saw him move past the kitchen entry. “Please tell your father refreshments are set out on the table.” Sarah made a show of pulling a glass from the rack on the glass topped island and handed it to Anna before pulling Lilly out onto the deck. She showed off the view, hot tub and conversation area. Several moments later. Back inside, the two. The nurses are in command of the get ready stage and will call you.” He nodded in my direction. “It won’t be long,” he said. Then, he glanced around to where Ronald was standing, but said nothing more. He smiled and seemed to wait for questions, none of us had any. He’d answered them all. He smiled a bit more broadly and left us to mutter our thank Gods and exhalations of sighs.I didn’t quite fall into my seat next to the waiting room’s couch. “Oh my,” I said to nobody but myself. I looked. Teresa gave the class the lowdown on the course requirements and described the goals and assignments and Milo stared at her the whole time. As she spoke she made an effort to look around the room and make eye contact with all of the pupils, and several times when she glanced at Milo he was looking into her eyes and smiling at her. Milo detected subtle smiles from Teresa, too, a couple times before she looked away.Milo wanted to talk to Teresa after the class just to say hello but she was. ’ ‘All right! I love honey. My dad kept a couple of hives on the farm, near an old orchard. I remember when he robbed them every summer, how the honey was so good. He’d give me some of the full comb to chew. There’s no taste like it. Some years, it was a light golden yellow and almost clear and other years it was darker and bolder tasting.’ ‘Like you, I’ve always been partial to honey. And it’s really not that bad for you. My dad was a chef and many of his most popular dishes contained honey..