" But I don't want to give the staff extra work. Sergeant Roberts brings me my meal with everything plated. Nothing fancy." Well?" Bit infra dig." Non...ense. It's just you and me and just like it'll be when we're married. I shan't be producing separate bowls of spuds and greens, and gravy in fancy sauce boats."Mark smiled. "Why do I love you so much?" he asked."Because I'm down to earth." That's one reason." Are there more?" she asked coquettishly."Ooh yes but I can't mention them in female. He has some knowledge of Latin and Ancient Greek, but as I know nothing of those languages I don’t know how much. His knowledge of world history is sadly lacking.”“As it is now almost the Easter holidays I propose that he comes in for talks with his teachers for a few hours, but starts properly in the Summer Term. Will he be a day boy, or boarding?”This was a question that Nicola had not considered. “What do you recommend?”“I suggest that he becomes a weekly boarder as he lives so close, but. Thank you. Really. But look at me. I’ve done it. I stayed independent and I’m going to get a place of my own to move into. I really did it.”“I’m so proud of you, Wendy,” I said. “All any of us want is for you to succeed. And for you to be our friend. And don’t forget there’s still a place for you with us.”“Do friends get to cuddle?”“Whenever they want.”Kate and I were counting down the days. Kate’s last final was on Thursday morning and on Sunday, we’d catch our flight to join Melody and Lissa. If indeed the circumstances of our upbringing had created in me an underlying, repressed sexual desire for Jenny, then what is clear now is that the urge first surfaced a few weeks after our sixteenth birthday. I’d gone with Jenny to visit her friend, Molly, who had invited us to go swimming in her parents’ pool. Molly and Jenny were already splashing around and having fun, when I went to slip into my trunks, and it was at that point I noticed a pile of clothes on the floor, on top of which.