It was a straightforward, a very linear presentation..." I shouldn't have neglected to caution you, Lars, that my novel is only intended as popular li...erature. It reads like a mass-market romance because that is, indeed, precisely the audience for whom it was intended." Well, perhaps, then, it serves its purpose," he said. "Certainly you have a fine prose style. I suppose I was expecting a more ... a more literary effort. Your poetry, certainly, would suggest that direction, for your first. It was dusty as if unused, and the plant life around the structure obscured the view in all directions."Well, in daylight at any rate. Marcus an' I installed the lights in high school. But in this here household, this is where you and yo' young lady might escape a parent's watchful eye fo' a spell." So you brought me out here to take advantage of me?" The thought had crossed my mind." Only the thought?" she asked while sliding her arms around his neck and kissing him deeply. He undressed her. "Yeah, it was Mom ... and she cried for a bit. David held me the whole time, and then when she hung up, I kissed him hard on the mouth. The rest was ... history," Amber whispered to me out of earshot of certain people in the family room.That was when Lisa excused herself and me for an "intermission of sorts," to take place in the shower, though we didn't stop the film, having seen it before. I knew full well what sort of "intermission" she had in mind, and sure enough, my wife got me naked and. “So Rob’s had you how many times now?” he asked. “Just the twice, or has he been a more regular visitor to your room?” “Just the twice,” Rob said, idly twirling a lock of Constance’s hair. “It wouldn’t do to have the servants find out, and so circumspection has had to outweigh passion. I’m toying with the thought of being rid of them entirely.” He was so smug, so confident, so utterly assured of himself, that for one bright instant, Constance despised him more than she would have thought.