. you see ... um ... you see it was so hot yesterday afternoon that Kate started messing around with the garden sprinkler and Paul, her brother, was a...so home and he ... he sort of pushed us both into the water so ... so ... we both got all soaked and Kate let me use some of her dry clothes when it was time to come home.”Jessie Harper did not turn around to look at her mother as she spoke but just stared at herself in another mirror on the landing. As she was looking at herself and replying to. She set her hand valise on the ground at her side. Everything she owned was right here. Now, where was that man she'd agreed to marry, she wondered. She swept a glance up, then down the street, looking for the gentleman she'd imagined from his letter. There was a fellow standing in the street in front of the Butterfield Stage office. Although it looked as if he were waiting on someone, she could not begin to consider him. The man she had agreed to marry was not a man who's clothing would be so. She made no attempt to cover up. They both lay there breathing hard and spent. I wanted to sit down my legs were weak and sore from standing. Eventually they rolled off one another, cleaned up and made their way from the bedroom. When I heard the front door close, I slumped to the ground, spent. "Charlie" she said as she entered the room. "He's gone now, come out" She sounded pissed. I had to gather my nerves. For years she had looked down on me, barely tolerated me. She constantly put me. I led him through to the kitchen and said that this was all a bit new to me so I suggested that he just find his way around the house on his own and I’d changed into some dry clothes. He nodded and when he went upstairs I took the opportunity to get some shorts and a top from the airing cupboard and hurriedly changed into them. After about fifteen minutes he reappeared in the kitchen and asked me to let him see the garden, which I happily did. In the meantime, I put some coffee on and when he.