She seemed to be amused by all this, I watched in a trance as she broke the sandwich with her slender white hands, and placed it in front of my mouth�...�’open’ she said and I took a small bite. In the meantime Wagter start nuzzling against her, so she gave him a bit of the sandwich, then let him out the kitchen door. My eyes could not drink in enough of this beautiful woman my gaze followed every step she took, and when she bent down in front of me to pick something of the floor, I was entranced. ”“My enemies call me sir. My friends call me Wendell. Are you in theater?”“Yes, I was in the theater tonight,” she said a bit confused.“I see but do you work in the theater like in makeup or costumes?”“No. I’m with Kirk.”“Wonderful boy. Did he show you the house?”“No. He’s talking with friends.”“I need to rescue us from these self-centered conceited actors. Let me take you Far from the Madding Crowd.” He chuckled at his quip, but Penny had no idea why.Wendell took her to his study where there. The resolution satisfied none of the parties, especially a few politically aggressive black leaders who had wanted the sheriff pilloried and a few reactionary whites who had demanded his exoneration; but, as Igwanda observed to Meiersdottir, "that is the nature of any compromise, that no-one gets everything he or she might prefer."For the return voyage Meiersdottir would again lead the scientific contingent, accompanied by both her husband and their infant son. Her own presence had been. I remember everybody telling me how pretty we were and we spontaneously gave Michel kisses for being so nice. Later during a spin the bottle game I got to kiss a lot of the boys, my first kisses, and liked it. So did Marie and she soon disappeared with one of them. Marie had been dating since that Christmas. I think she just wanted to see what it was like to do what mother did.As people started to leave Michel sent me upstairs to fetch a gift that he had bought my mother. When I could not find.