I walked along this section and noticed that there seemed tobe slightly rougher ground immediately next to the house and again infront of the shrubs, ... was walking along a path between old forgottenflower beds. I went a little past the rear of the house and stopped totake a look, here again there was evidence that there had once been alawn but it was only about ten metres and then there was the piles ofstones where we had found the cooking pots and further along there wasanother pile of. ..we gave you all you wanted, and we were happy, right, Eustace?"Eustace had to admit that, but still, he didn't want to get involved with awoman who was going to control him. "Say, Dad, I don't want to take my VWBug to meet Opal, can I borrow your Caddy?"Dinner went well, Opal was a witty conversationalist,and Eustace began to wonder if he should get alittle closer to her. He asked her out again.On their third date, Eustace leaned over in the big, roomy Caddy and put hisarm around her, as they. The harm was in thinking a simple breath mint and a hand wash would make it seem as if it never happened. I was no longer that good boy, playing by the rules. I had broken nearly every rule in the space of one afternoon. I could justify it all I wanted, by saying that my wife no longer communicated, that the intimacy was non-existent, that the marriage existed in name only. But the fact remained that I had broken the rules. I lay in bed awake, as my wife slept next to me. My mind turned over. A few weeks later, the reporter's wife had a flat while taking their kids to school. It was a rainy, nasty day. One of my tow truck drivers stopped to offer assistance. With the wife and two kids squeezed into the front of his tow truck he took off to get the kids to school on time. Then with the wife in the cab, he towed the car back to the dealership. While he was getting the flat fixed, a couple of the female employees took the wife under their wing got her some dry clothes and hot.