.. you did ask me to call you Charles," Wendy said. "Charles, I'd like to go clothes shopping."Daddy made a U-turn and headed to Sears."Oh, No. I want...clothes, not seconds." Wendy confessed, "I like Neiman Marcus or Arbaugh's. If I must wear jeans, I want only Levis."Charles ... we, David and I, have a great deal of money and I want to spend some of it. I feel it's my duty as an American citizen to spread it around. I want American Made." Don't you think you should save for a rainy day?" Pops. On second thought, I pulled off my socks and tossed them in the laundry as well. I fixed us tall gin and tonics and went to the deck. It took a minute to get the deck furniture wiped off but before long I was stretched out looking up into the cloudless night sky.The light on the deck went out a second before the door slid open. That would decrease the number of bugs flitting around, I supposed.“Is this seat taken?” Lil asked as she settled into my lap on the lounger. Naked.“Lil? You are ... Oh,. His back was to David, and he was leaning out of the carriage. "Pass me oop me gun" David winced as the barrel of a gun was thrust up and the man grabbed it.'No time like the present' David thought. Gathering himself together he quietly stood, and as the man began to turn around and step into the carriage proper, David cold-cocked him across the head. He hardly grunted, as his legs buckled and he began to fall.With his free hand David grabbed the gun from his opponent's now limp fingers.. He was thinking about his short conversation with Steffany. In spite of his sometimes paralyzing shyness with women, he’d thought about asking her out on more than one occasion, but always chickened out at the last minute because ... well because she was Steffany the Beautiful and he was Merlin the Boring.She was indeed a stunning beauty and she had a rapier wit to go along with her brilliant, insightful mind for business. He knew she was single (divorced), but he suspected that every.