He lives 200 miles away and in those days it would take 10 days to walk, five days by horse if you were lucky and that’s just to get there, to say n...thing of the return journey. So you have to seize the day and, in this play, be seen to act as if you were seizing the day.”Pete was enjoying his wife’s discomfiture and he was beginning to slur when he commented “Perhaps, my dear, you are not quite as talented an actress as you thought you were.”Greg, aware of the tension, thought he was about to. ..Jack had to be out there somewhere, and I needed to figure out how to meet up with him. As I dashed through a gap in the fire blazing at our entryway, I scooted left to stay out of direct the line of fire, and rolled into a low spot to set up and defend our home.Finally they came. Two sets of four, armed to the teeth, rushed the front door. Without thinking about it, I opened on them, firing at heads in case of flack jackets. My shotgun took three down with two shots, and I re-aimed and kept. .. why would... is this about sex again?" she demanded, still angry."It's about what is supposed to be our marriage. I can't cope on my own any more." He knew exactly what would happen when he said it, and she did not disappoint, dashing tearfully to her car and locking herself in.At dinner that night, he would never have known there had been any problem. She was as vivacious and chatty as could be. He was totally baffled by that behavior and more than a little concerned about his bride's. I wasn’t sorry about any of it, but it sure seemed strange at times!One thing did work out about having money - it was easy to get babysitters! Like I had told Marilyn back in 1983, on the night of my high school reunion when Hamilton had first started stalking us and had scared poor Becky Devlin, that girl wasn’t about to keep her mouth shut about the tip I paid her! The Buckmans were known as generous tippers, and we had a choice of girls to babysit the kids.We did a date night about once a.