”Mr Bennet staggered drunkenly into the breakfast room after a break fast of Rum and Porter in roughly equal proportions. “Oh don’t be so retice...t dear, One can not have sentiments where marriage is concerned, let the Gentleman sample the merchandise.”Eliza fumed, “He desires to sample me not wed me.”“Indeed I do not,” Mr D’arcy sighed, “I merely wish to shoot your Peasants, I mean Pheasants.”“Then why have you a trouser bulge Mr D’arcy?” Mr Bennet observed.“Father!” Miss Eliza declared, “Do. We were not alone in our bed. Curled up spoon fashion with Dan was our twelve-year-old daughter, Sarah. Dan sleeps in the nude, as does Sarah. The rocking gradually built in tempo and intensity until it could not be ignored. In weeks past they would not permit themselves to lose control and waited mercifully until they thought I was fast asleep. Each time, they began earlier and became more obvious until I found myself being gently rocked shortly after retiring and rudely jostled after only ten. I, stupidly, had been saving myself for Ben, hoping that he would show up one day apologizing for being a damn moron and begging me for forgiveness. This morning I’d called him with the hope that he’d finally gotten lonely enough to take me back, but the conversation didn’t go as I had planned. “I just don’t get it! Why tell someone you love them if you don’t mean it? And what the fuck does he mean when he says he’s doing all this for me? God, I could just strangle him right now!” I yelled,. At this point in the testing I had become very cautious. I certainly did not want any of the burning material to fall on me! My first test with the fuse was to lay a small blob of the mix on a saucer and stick the end of a short section of fuse into the blob. There was nothing to hold the fuse upright, so I let it drape over the edge of the saucer.I used my taper to light the exposed end of the fuse and stepped back. Oh, damn! That fuse mixture took too long to burn down to the blob. I was.