Whitman," June said shyly, "how can you handle having this many people in your house all the time?" Actually June, it's not that bad. Weekends sometim...s feel a little cramped, especially when the weather is like it is. During the week a lot of the kids are in school so that helps too." Speaking of which, Mom, I'm taking the girls to the range this morning. Do you need anything while we're out?" Yes I do, Jake," Judy said, "bring home a side of beef and a truck load of bacon and eggs." June. I’m prepared to negotiate an arrangement to that end. I’ll get independent evaluations, we come to an agreement on price, and you find buyers while taking a few percentage points for yourself.” The jeweller smiles because this’ll allow him to make a nice profit while he gets his foot in the door in certain circles at no real financial risk to himself. Yes, a one percent cut would be more than sufficient on such a quantity of top quality diamonds.He nods yes while saying, “I think we can reach. It wasn't intentional. I happened to look that way, and, ummm, I guess because it's really big, it kind of grabbed my attention."I could sense from his face and body language that my honest response totally defused the situation. "You're not the first guy to do that, trust me."I smiled when he said that. "I don't doubt that."This turned into a shower conversation. We exchanged names, we chatted about our classes, and we kept on talking as we dried ourselves off and went to our lockers, which. I said, “Well, this is certainly a surprise. I thought you were leaving today, Mr. R.”“I am, Michele. In fact Tim was driving me out to the airport and I insisted that he swing out here so I could see for myself what you had done to the place. Tim has been so glowing, especially about the gardens. I have to say, Michele, I am impressed. The property looks wonderful.”“Thank you, Sir.”I smirked and said, “And, as you can see, Sir, as I said last night, your dogs are ‘fitting in’ just fine around.