Then out of the blue, he said, "As a business proposition, you know the going rate here in Dallas is $400." He let that hang in the air while I tried ...ot to spit out my wine from the shock."You've paid?" I asked. Suddenly, I had a whole different opinion of this otherwise charming man."A few times." I wondered what a few was. "But it is never as nice as with someone special like you." That was supposed to make me feel good?Anyway we had some more very awkward conversation until suddenly, he. But, I knew I’d get another chance in the near future. To ask, Danielle out on a date any time soon.The one thing I did know, I was in love with Danielle. It was love at first sight. That’s what I thought it was even though they weren’t feelings and emotions I’d felt before. Being in the company, of somebody of the opposite sex before. Deep down I hoped, she felt the same way. There’s only one way to find out and that’s to ask her out on a date.Over, the course of the next few days. While in. Captain Appleby had already been called by the prosecution and had given his evidence, relaying in understated terms their disagreement and explaining his logic in ordering her flogging. When she listened to it from his point of view she realised she?d overstepped the mark. She still believed she had been right to object to Armstrong?s whipping, but her tone had been wrong, and she should never have defied him. She realised with a sense of mounting horror that she had been insubordinate, and. "I guess that I am not making you a tiny bit uncomfortable and nervy-like with my presence and actions here, or am I?" This, Doug asks me coolly and composedly. Damn! What is he supposed to mean with this? What exactly?"I am comfortable and very much fine; thank you, Doug," I say and make known to him. He smiles at me happily and affectionately. Is he excited? Or merely seeking to make me feel fine and good about all this? I can't exactly and spot-on tell!He is a few breathes or inches away.