She stared at me, then said... "Oh ... that". Her comment carried an edge that bothered me, so I recoiled... "Look, I cut their lawn, and ... she's go...ng through a lot right now, so I offered to help her". She stayed on a roll, with "I heard he was crazy" then "she's moving, right?" To which I said, "I don't have any details, I'm just helping her for a few hours". At that moment I felt myself coming to a boil. I thought ahead and figured it best that I get out of that damn house before I said. “Are you sure that we aren’t dressed too informally? This seems a bit much...”“Nonsense. Wear as much or as little as you wish. Beautiful women could never offend me.” Caroline snorted as she sat down at her accustomed place at Malcolm’s side; Malcolm smiled at his wife and lifted her hand to kiss the palm. “Starting, of course, with you, my dear.”Phoebe must have been listening from the kitchen, because the next thing to occur was that she opened the door and came through with a large platter. I just can’t explain that smile it was so beautiful. I fell in love with her all over again. And I was all lost in her smile when she asked how was ur holidays and I was brought to reality by her firm grip on my hand. And I asked her what her question was and she smiled again. And I asked how are you and she said now am fine and I was again all in thoughts of how cute she is and the new hair cut she had and looking at every minute changes she had from earlier.And I could even say that she had a. Why?" Steve called. Wants to subcontract me for one of my old clients. Need to fly down there for a meeting Thursday."Squeal! "I have running room in my schedule. I'll work it out tomorrow. Send some emails right now to get 'em thinking about it." She plopped down and whipped out her laptop."Uh, before you start to email family, we're having dinner with Steve and Carole."She didn't look too crestfallen. "That's okay. They're decent conversation. But we still..." she paused. "Let's think about.