I was a little out of it.”“Well, I tried for you to be.”Eric saw a new sort of responsibility. Sure, when you were making love to a woman, you w...nted her to be crazed with lust, senseless with recent climaxes, or -- preferably -- both when you entered her. That meant, however, that you had to take responsibility for all the thinking. When you were both thinking, then each one had the responsibility of trying to think of the other. When, deliberately, you had made yourself the only one who. They moved with absolute grace and elegance. I’ll admit that I was distracted for a moment. An inane thought of “you don’t see that every day” rushing through my head before it was pushed out by an appreciation of the unbelievable view.They went straight to the casket, falling perfectly into line along it, heads bowed, reaching slowly to each other until they were hand in hand. After a very long moment, they wordlessly peeled away from Sergeant Schnell and headed for the front pew.The Sergeant. Ranching means long days. When we got back to the house Jennie was helping Marie in the kitchen with dinner. She was wearing some new jeans and a loose top."You look good, Baby Sis. How was the shopping?" We had fun. Everything came in at under $200; I hope that's OK." That's a lot better than I expected. Did you get everything you needed?" Yeah, I'm good. And Marie and I have been talking about a lot of stuff, you know, about home. She has some ideas about how we can keep me here. I'll tell. Miss Carson had told me off for appearing downstairs with streaks of coal on my face and had ordered me into the wash room to clean up; no fun at all with cold water!I just got back into the hall when one of the bells up on the wall rang. Looking up at the jangling bell, I could see it had been rung in the Green Bedroom.“That will be Miss Addison expecting her tea. There’s a tray over there with a fresh pot. You can take it up to her if you can remember where that is?”Recalling the stinging.