.. and I still say you're gorgeous." I was laughing as I got into the car, and she started chuckling as well."I was right—you are a smartass, but yo... seem like a good kid, so I'll let it pass ... this time."Our trip to the pool store passed in companionable conversation, and I was glad to be getting to know Rhonda like this. Since it looked like we might be living on her estate for several years, I was happy for the opportunity to get a little closer, nudity notwithstanding.The new hose. “That was nice. You run well for an old guy.”“I am only 38 and I have run much longer.”“Shower and then I want to come to your room and do some banking of my own, ok?”I am a guy.“You can shower in my room.”Renee smiled.“I don’t shower with married men.”“Stan?”“Never. He has rarely seen me naked.”“Sex?”“Get in, get done, get out.”“Helen IS going to be a little surprised.”Renee looked at me like she had just had a revelation.“So, shower and I will be at the connecting door in 20 minutes.”“Deal.. Three photos in silver frames stood proudly next to his overflowing in-tray; one of his wife who, even in her white wedding dress, looked austere and depressed, another of his three children opening presents on Christmas Day in the early 1990s. The third had been a gift from the school’s beautiful English teacher the previous term, showing her in a particularly inviting position laid across the very desk on which the photograph now stood.He read through the letter in his hand one final time,. ‘This sound like the Pelagian heresy,’ said Isabella at one stage. ‘Indeed, yes,’ said Thomas in reply. ‘The Pelagians shared many of these views and were eliminated by the church in the early AD400s because of their doctrine — and its implications for church authority.’ ‘The historical perspective on our faith is perhaps better explained in detail at another time by someone like Beatrice or Kahlia who are more knowledgeable than I am about the various paths and diversions. Suffice to say, it.