She is a very confused and bewildered woman. She is at a complete loss as to why she did what she did. Oh, she knows the superficial reasons, crossing...over to middle-age, a sense of loss of her youth, etc. etc. What she doesn't understand is why that should have made her act in such a stupid manner. She feels that she must have been 'brain dead', her words. Okay, Arch. Enough. Keep in touch though, please?"Arch rose, shook Bernie's hand and escorted him out of the office. He returned to his. I had already bought such things as thermal imaging scopes and cameras. I was very high tech in my security around the still house.One of the lowest tech things I did might have proved to be the most useful. I had some signs printed and then stapled them to trees on the edges of my property. Mostly the said no hunting with gun or dog on this property. I had a pretty good feeling the neighbors had the same kind of signs up as well.I spent two hours looking for more security gadget but didn't. “In that case, I haven’t had the pleasure of you Danni, Nyoto, Ashley, Mistress Rose and the cute girl blowing Burt in the corner.”“That’s five” Danni said to Sarah “still want to bet Sarah?”Sarah looked at Josh and considered her answer “it depends, what do we call closing time?”“Till Josh faints from fatigue?” Danni joked.Josh was curious as to what the bet was for so he asked “what’s the wager?”“The name of our new company we are going to form” Sarah said.“We would be delighted if you would. I winced. It was not that I exactly had anything against George, but I was offended that he had tried to make me jealous of his opulent lifestyle, and what rankled even more was that in some measure he had succeeded; I had indeed felt pangs of envy. And now he was to be richer still. Moreover, it was not possible for me to avoid coming into contact with him. Not only did I have professional dealings with him, but, worse still, Wendy and I were obliged by social convention to reciprocate his.