Irene looked at the door ready to bolt.“Don’t worry about it!” Magus shouted.“Okay,” Stephen shouted.Irene took a deep breath and looked fro... office to office. She expected either Stephen or Magus to come out at any time. When nothing happened she started to relax. She jumped when Magus shouted, “Irene!”“What?” she said. It was more of a squeak than a shout.“Irene?” Magus shouted.“What?” she said slightly louder. She stared at the door expecting him to come flying out of the office in a rage at. Eva came into the living room, and I saw her carefully looking around for me. When she saw me standing in the kitchen, with a bottle of Cola in my hands, I said, "Come in, do you want something to drink?" Um ... okay," she said. I think she was surprised by how calm I looked and to my own surprise, I wasn't even slightly blushing.I turned around and took another glass out of the cupboard. Luckily, I had helped Annie to clean up our breakfast, else I wouldn't have known where the glasses would. Just then, she couldn't have cared less if he'd said anything at all. She was just glad that he was out of the house, and her life ... at least until he came back home that evening. She slumped down in her chair because she felt exhausted, both physically, and emotionally.David thought about his wife as he drove to work that morning. He wasn't stupid; he could tell that her attitude had changed, but he couldn't quite put his finger on how she was different. Too him, she just seemed to be a. ? It is so tempting to leave that part out, butshe cannot.? And then, fully informed, hemust ask for it.? This is essential.? It is not a moral issue in the slightest, butrather about the fact that guilt has an annoying tendency to interfere withenjoyment, so it must be banished.? Forit to be banished, there must be that one moment of pure consent, because aboveall else he will be consenting to non-consensual treatment:? Shortly after that moment, the line betweenthe two will become blurrier.