She'd just begun chapter 8 in which the hero finally asks his governess for her hand in marriage, and the guilt-ridden wife couldn't help remembering ...ow she'd felt the same joy when Verne had proposed to her one moonlit night as they walked along a quiet country lane.Everything was so wonderful then! she thought wistfully. Marrying Verne was the most beautiful thing that had ever happened to me. And look what I'm doing now - destroying everything. If Verne finds out about Larry or Tony, he'll. ’ The cheeky bastard I first thought, I couldn’t believe the nerve of him, the hell was I going to surrender myself in this way and the condescending way he kept calling Dan Hubby Boy, just who the hell did he think he was. I waited until Dan came back from work still pissed off but beginning to calm down a bit and as I grew a bit calmer I kept wandering what it would be like to give up my free will entirely to some stranger to obey his every whim and even though I was still fuming slightly I. That's what she calls him, "The Gunny". Even now and they have beenmarried for almost three years now. Jez, was it annoying. She'd hug me,kiss me and giggle and say he was coming over this weekend to meet me andthen he was taking her out. TAKING HER OUT!!!! I was beyond confused. Mymother has not been on a date with a man since my father was killed. Sure,she went out now and then with 'the girls' for a few drinks and maybe amovie or splendid dinner, but that was the limit. I was. She did it more out of obligation, but for some reason she enjoyed the look on his face. She was reminded of what she had felt when she first met him back home. Being a flirt, she covered herself but had a big smile on her face.“Oh my god, Uncle Hank. Were you staring at me?”“You're beautiful.”“...and you are a naughty, naughty man. I'm a married woman.”“Of course. My nephew is a very lucky man.”“Thank you.”“Well, I'm done early so I came to take to you to lunch. Would you care to join.