Although I often couldn't understand the questions, I made it a game to infer them from her answers. I was amazed at how much inflection she cold put ...nto those answers, as well as her range of emotion in her replies. It seemed that she could communicate with a whole crowd when necessary and all would hear her clearly. That must have been great when dealing with a temple full of worshipers in the days before public address systems were invented.One day she gave an abrupt and very cool reply of. She had now placed one of her arms around my stomach. “You have lost weight,” she said while looking at me lovingly.“I suppose I have,” I said.I noticed that earlier myself, but now apparently so did she. The stress had gotten to me lately. A lot of coffee, not enough sleep and a constant lack of appetite had caused me to lose some weight. My ribs were starting to show. "You need to relax babe. I know that things are a bit strange right now, but you need to relax a little bit. Me and the kids. When he was finished with his presentation, Miranda Fortune asked, "How soon can you install it" "I can move my schedule around and start it tomorrow," he replied quickly, "is that too soon!!" "On the contrary," she answered quickly,, "that would be just great, about eight o'clock shall we say Back at the office Dan was assembling all the gear and hardware he'd need for tomorrow's job, but his mind wasn't really on security systems, it was on the fantastic body of Miranda Fortune, and although. Cory was too young to understand, and as the only girl, idolised her eldest brother like a god. Chase was not yet a teenager, and hormones had not yet taken her youngest boy away from her and into the grunting uncommunicative grip of puberty. It was the middle children, both discovering girls as well as themselves, who had reacted most strongly, and most vehemently.Carla lay and stared at her sleeping husband. William had the strange blessing of being able to fall asleep the moment his head hit.