Once she arrived back at the house she squeezed the fresh oranges and mangos along with the juice from fresh pineapple and made a refreshing drink for...Gabriella. She started to add the powder, but hesitated, perhaps she should at least let Maria know and make the decision as to whether or not she felt it was worth the chance. She didn’t want to upset anyone unnecessarily. She carried the glass of juice and slipped the vial of powders in her apron pocket. She entered Gabriella’s room and she and. ............So far we had been on horseback for over three months, we had not travelled fast, but were now getting somewhat saddle weary. There was still at least another month before we would arrive at our destination in Tanganyika (now Tanzania).We had travelled two and a half thousand kilometres as the crow flies, much more with detours, either to see something of interest or more likely, to circumnavigate the impassable, on horseback, mountain ranges of the Great Rift Valley.But here we. And I really don't want to have to do this three times." Do what?" Um, gound rules kind of things?" There are ground rules?" Well I thought maybe..." Greg, I trust these guys not to abuse me. They can do whatever they want. That's the point. I'm giving up control in a way I never could if it wasn't these guys." OK. But I'd still like to get any talk out of the way beforehand." That's fair."Greg arranged the call. I wanted to be in the room to hear, but not be on screen. I wasn't sure I wanted. She was asking a man to take her fourteen year old unmarried virginal daughter’s maidenhood. In Boston such an act would be so far beyond the pale that it was, literally, unthinkable to many in her class. She had come a long way in her life; and actually she was rather pleased to have done so. There had been great problems along the way, and she could not see the future so had no idea whether things would work for the better, but it had been exciting. In Boston she would have become some old.