" She sat down on the couch. I started to stiffen a little. "Is it okay if I hang out here for a little while and let the car cool off?"My mind went b...ank. "Uhhh...yeah...definitely," I stammered. "Yeah I was actually just about to head out in a little while. You want something to drink?" I looked down from behind her. She sat on my couch, her skirt riding up her silky thighs. I wanted to run my tounge up and down them."No thanks," she said. "Am I messing things up by hanging around here? Did. It was during those few seconds of panic that I realized just how much I still loved my wife and I knew right then that I never wanted us to part. I asked her if she was hurt, she said her leg must be broken for she couldn’t move it. Upside down in the dark, I couldn’t seem to find either one of our phones. I finally managed to get us free from our seat-belts, and then climbed out of the car and went to her side to help her. As I went around the car I noticed a cabin close by and after getting. Me?” she gasped. “It’s so beautiful! You shouldn’t have!”“Thomas, you astound me!” his mother chided gently. “This would be more appropriate for wooing a young lady!”He shrugged. “When I decide to woo a young lady, I’ll remember that. Mirabel, remember how you asked me if I resented your presence? This is meant as my answer.”“Thomas, you are a fine young man!” Theodore Grey interjected. “And I wonder what you might have found for me!”He opened the oblong package to find the fowling piece. “By. ”“Thank you, Irving—”He again will not allow her to finish. “Don’t thank me, girl, it was your boy there. That was the damnedest speech I ever heard, Darrow would have been proud to have said it. I’m going the extra mile on that alone.”I do not understand all of this—what is “polygraph” and “double-blind?”—but I understand enough to be glad that I spoke as I did.When dinner is finished Irving asks that we sleep early. “I want to get off at about oh-dark-thirty,” he says, “do the whole thing in.