The speaker was an elderly diminutive man who was discussing marketing strategy in the age of technology. He was nervous and poorly prepared and his t...chnical knowledge simply wasn’t current enough to hold Carolyn’s attention. For the past half hour, her mind had been wandering. She’d been at the conference for six days and during that time had made several dozen great contacts. She’d learned far more than she’d hoped to learn and had met a myriad of important, well informed technological. "I'm sorry," he said. "As you know, I wasn't too keen on this do but everyone's so friendly. I'm enjoying myself."Trish smiled happily up at him. "When Tom asked me to join his table I knew we'd be in with a good crowd and isn't Briony beautiful?" Isn't she ever?" Watch it, boy." Well you asked and you're not so bad yourself."Trish beamed.Margaret and Philip sat that dance out."What a nice bunch of people," said Philip."Tom's my section head and we're all devoted to him. It's typical of him. 5 years that priya has been in Germany. I want love and I love priya. But I also started loving you Raji. You are a wonderful person and you have made my time away from priya bearable. Raji was listening silently.Time to press advantage. I looked directly into her eyes and said “ I love you raji… And then I took her hand and said I get so much of love from Priya , I will very lucky person if I get some love from you too. She did not pull out her hand. She was still looking at me. And then. With every step toward her bedroom, the desire seemed to magnify within me.Perhaps she sensed this as we walked by the brief silence between us."I wasn't really expecting company tonight-- I hope you don't mind if my place is a little messy..." she laughed lightly as she offered her apology."Doesn't bother me," I said. "I'm usually more comfortable in places that aren't spotless anyway." Yeah. Well, my place is pretty far from spotless, so..." It's no problem."Another pause. "So. Anyway I was.