My next kiss sort of explained things. “Bra’s an impediment. I feel natural like this.”“I feel something myself...”Maybe I shouldn’t be so...forward, but hey, sometimes ... I reached down. Giggled. “I feel something, too...”“Tee, stop that. It ain’t fair.”Cindyism. “Fair’s where you go to buy funnel cakes and cotton candy.” Kissss. “Maybe we NEED some candy...”“You’re...”“Dealing with my husband,” I said. “We just exchanged vows. Now, if you’re as serious as I was, then consummation...”“Last. "Billy gave me all the information he felt I needed. He was so worked up that I had to tell him to calm down and try to act natural. I told him I'd try to think of some way out of it for him, but I made him promise to stick close to home until I came up with something. I drove over to Stonington and made my delivery and then drove home. I was trying to think of something I could do to help Billy and also Theresa. She didn't need this from him and I knew she'd take it bad if she found out.. He ran long and hard trying to forget the pain and anger on his mother’s face and the curses of the military man who took her from him. He was afraid and so young. He wandered his native land for months before coming to rest at this sad reminder. He knew he was somewhere in Scotland, but it resembled nothing he had ever seen before. So, he quit running. He quit caring. He almost quit living. What would be the point to my death? Just one more body decaying on the motorway with an eon of grief. "And I wasn't entirely lying. I had grown to care what happened to him."Shall we?"Helmut offered me his arm."Of course," I said, taking it.We were the first down to dinner, which didn't surprise either of us.When Hans and Gerda turned up, fifteen minutes later, they both lookedflushed. But then there's nothing like cheating death to make you feelalive, and nothing like sex to celebrate that feeling. Well, almostnothing."I asked that the best bottles of wine be brought up from the cellarbecause.