Busy with her maid of honour duties, she greeted us with a diplomatically subtle smile as she welcomed the guests in from the garden. When a lull in ...he new arrivals allowed us a proper moment together, Irene joined me in the corner by the window that I had found for myself to admire Elizabeth and Jonathan as they received the guests’ congratulations. ‘So beautiful, aren’t they?’ she murmured in lieu of a greeting, sniffing back tears and clutching my hand affectionately. ‘Indeed,’ I agreed,. I clambered up onto the rock to get dry with her, and we lay there in the sun together for several minutes in each other's silent, naked company. "Your legs do look nice though," I said, "now that you've shaved them." "Thanks," she said, "I'm good at it, see." She extended her leg to me. "Not a hair left." "Wow" I murmured rapturously. "You wanna feel?" she said hesitantly, but with a flirty smile across her white teeth. I nodded and gently extended a hand to her leg. I slowly slid my hand up. I looked at Linda and she just nodded. There were low chuckles around the table. I went off to get the drinks again and notice that Linda had apparently returned to the conversation with Jim and the other guy. They were both leaning in towards her. and she apparently disagreed with both of them...because she was gesturing wildly at both of them under the table...probably shaking a finger at them both. It must have been good humored fun, because the guys didn't seem offended by her. Butler flipped the safety off and pressed the button. They heard a faint "whumph," in the distance."Now we wait. And I hope some light sleeper didn't figure out what that was and call the fire department," he fretted.They waited, unable to see anything because of snow still coming down.Richardson, who had been listening on the longer-range radio, turned to Jeff. "The other vans are having problems with the drifts. Why don't we find someplace to hole up until the plows get out? The team is.