To her amazement Jane recognised the madness within; she shuddered. Why was this woman so distraught? The sweat coating her skin, together with her fl...xing muscles spoke of how close she was to spending. The woman forced out a few words between her guttural grunts."Please, uh, uhn - help, oh, ahh - me!" Help you spend?" Asked Jane, laying her hand softly on the woman's twisting shoulder."No, um, huh - help, urgh, oh - me stop!" You can not stop?" Jane asked incredulously."Not, um, ah - for. "Is everything alright, my lady?"Startling back to reality, the princess began to stammer."Oh, yes, of course, my apologies, I was simply..."The knight let out a chuckle, her mouth curling into a wry smile."You were expecting a man, weren't you?"Looking down, embarrassed, Mariella nodded."Yes."In response, the knight's smile grew into an amused laugh."I'm sorry to disappoint you, my lady."Immediately, Mariella's eyes went wide, and she did her best to apologise, much to the knight's. Do you know how real estate brokers make money? The commission is split, half for listing and half for sales. The broker whose office signs up a seller, who gets the listing to put into the Multiple system for all of our 'cooperating competitors' (a classic oxymoron) to sell gets about half and the broker whose office actually makes the sale to the buyer gets the other half. (And then each broker splits her share with the salesperson who actually brought in the listing or made the sale.) It's. "I heard about you and Denise at the movies, and later at her house. I thought you liked me?" I do like you. Who says I don't?" You don't act like it. Denise didn't help either, throwing herself at you like that." I told Denise, and I'm telling you. I'm not going to talk about any of that. If you have a problem with me, over what I did with you, I'll discuss it. I'm not going to talk about any problems that you and Denise have though, or what Denise and I might have done." Oh, don't worry..