We sat and slowly ate in awkward silence neither of us acknowledging what had happened between us. When we finished she rose from her seat.“I- I’m...going to do some dishes“ she collected the dishes from the table and headed for the sink.“I’ll help you,” I rose up I knew that she didn’t need help, but I wanted to see if this might go anywhere, minister’s wife or not I needed to know.I came up behind her and as I started to reach around her I felt her tense up but as I wrapped my hands around her. I tried to explain that I hadn't lifted for about three months but could not make Orville agree that I needed to ease back into my routine. He didn't talk much but he was a taskmaster, demanding that I do one more, one more, and one more. I tried to work him just as hard as he worked me but he just laughed at me. When we stopped at five-thirty I knew how Josh must have felt when I pushed him. Orville took a quick shower and left, saying he would see me on Wednesday.I went upstairs to take my. Sammy and Sally glanced at each other and talked about it later that day when they had some privacy. They didn’t understand how she could do such a bad thing and not even apologize for it. Surely she knew they could hear her.Just as Robbie had said, every few nights she would bring home somebody and they would hear those noises for a while before the man left. Robbie had also told them it was very often a different man although he’d recognized some repeat visitors when he’d peeked out to see. Just an example. When her grandfather died two years ago, she took a month to travel around and talk to people from different stages his life. She wrote a story about what everyone had said. Real, unsparing, loving. She sent it to all the people she had interviewed and asked them to write somecomments and send them to other people she had interviewed, not her. It was a beautiful tribute. ‘How do you feed yourself when you do these things,’ I managed the nerve to ask. She brushed me off. ‘This.