First of all, she and Ken had gotten married three weeks afterward, in a simple ceremony at the local Justice of the Peace. Her presence in the Clark ...ousehold no longer caused raised eyebrows after that, and their neighbors had accepted them as a model community family, happy, close-knit.Tony was still going out with Debbie Mason--Bette had, after that first night in Ken's bedroom, found that the girl had a lot of redeeming qualities and had even grown somewhat fond of her, now that she had. .. made rules ... shut kids out. She was disappointed in him.“Back in the bear den,” she reminded him. “You flirted with me ... kind of. And some other times too.”He wanted to close his eyes. He wished she’d go away. “Okay, I’ll admit I was flirting with you a little. I flirt with some of the guests, sometimes.”“Why?” she asked.“I don’t know. It makes them feel good, I guess.”“How could you possibly know how it makes them feel?” she asked.She obviously wasn’t going away. But her tone was. Bill wasbeing sent home, that was obvious; and then I saw Johnson's bat lying inthe base path. I ran out to get the bat, and just as I grabbed it, Ifelt a collision as Bill ran into me. Their catcher caught the ball andtagged Bill out, two feet from home plate. The game was over, and I hadcaused the loss. Our side was stunned, and our perfect record wassmashed.Coach was furious and kicked me off the team. He personally escorted meto the locker room and confiscated my uniform, then told me to. She just got mad and yelled at me. She is just getting hard to live with.”“Finally, about four days ago, I had enough. Yeah, last Friday I came home from work and told her we were going out to dinner, have some drinks and come home and make wild monkey sex. She shut me down and grabbed her purse and left the house. I opened a beer and tried to watch TV. I was at my wits end. What was wrong, what happened to my perfect wife?The phone rang and I ran to it thinking it was Grace. It was Vicky,.