There’s just you and I here before the crowd arrives.”For the first time in a long time I saw her smile.“Why do I get the feeling you know what ... want to talk about?” I said, eyeing her closely.“Joel, I’ve known you for all these years. I know what Naomi means to you and I know how she feels about you. All I can say is that you will never find a finer young woman than her. Does that about cover it?” she said with another slow smile.“Exactly,” I chuckled. “So ... it’s about a ring. I need your. Turned out to be interracial stuff but the irony was that the guy that sat down next to me on the settee was black. So there am I watching interracial porn with a black guy sitting next to me and Jack perched on the arm of the settee the other side of me.”Her mum’s laughter interrupted her.“Well afterwards we got talking, me and Ben that is. He was obviously on the make and thought that we were into swinging. I put him straight on that and then he asked me if my husband allowed me to see other. "That's half a bottle each for Heaven's sake. Anyway, I'll have lager beforehand just to be on the safe side." Yeah, me too," added Louise."Have you got any plans for tomorrow?" asked Harry."We're both having lunch with the Thornes. What about you, Lou?" I'm going out with Peter." What are you going to do?" I don't know. The wretched man won't tell me. I asked him what I should wear in the hope that that would give me a clue and all he said was 'nothing special'. Fat lot of good that was."The. ”“How many units do you think you’ll put on this piece? Fifty?” I asked.“Oh, no! We don’t want to look like a bunch of row houses. We plan to develop fifteen residential lots and a business center around the village square. Maribelle Swanson will run a produce market to get that started. But the kids are already outgrowing the barn loft for Designed by Leonard. They’ve crowded the dormitories so they have room to cut and sew. I think Elaine’s wardrobe almost fills the space up there anyway..