The rest of us were tearful.Toby stood behind Janice and she turned to him and hugged his legs. Janice said, "Tobias, stay with me. It'll work out!" H... gently patted her shoulder and caressed her cheek.Mister Anderson saw that and smiled. He slowly stood and then pulled his wife to her feet. He looked at Toby and motioned for him to help Janice to stand.He took a deep breath. "Jan, you a wonderful person. Your Tobias seems to be an equally wonderful young man. With my blessings, you are not. We washed together for a few minutes and I started to fart in the jacuzzi teasing her. You see I usually fart and so does she so its nothing embarrassing and she done one huge fart which I felt vibrate louder than the jacuzzi. I said 'Ergh mom that's a big one' and she she said 'Ahh I had a big lunch'. Soon after I felt to do a shit and said I need the toilet putting my hand down my belly, she said go on then your hear anyway laughing.I got out the jacuzzi not bothering to dry myself and. .. all expenses paid, of course. Let it not be supposed, however, that he was in it just for the free room and board and the several thousand dollars a month he managed to cozen her out of. Not at all. He was also quite madly in love with her. He was tormented by the fact that it was, as far as he knew, an unrequited love. Never having confessed this human weakness to her, he could not be absolutely sure that she would not be responsive. He was sure beyond any doubt that her father had no use. There was canned food in the cupboard and I set about making myself at home. I sat idly in the kitchen with a bowl of soup and began dealing with the piles of mail. Mostly junk and flyers which were out of date by now, a letter from Maggie and the kids telling me they were staying over in France for a while longer and would be back at the end of the month unless she managed to get booked on another seminar. There were a couple of bills, one for the visa and one for the electricity and a couple.