So what happened was this: On the night of our graduation we both had a celebration with our families and friends, and we had agreed that when our par...ies were over we'd meet and have one of our own. It was on that occasion I told her, that I couldn't live without her, no matter what, and would she marry me. She cried a lot again, and said yes, yes, yes, and that she'd write Montreal and call off the job she'd been offered there, and that she'd stay here and wait for another job to turn up."I. Sometimes it's overt and at others merely a gut feeling that something isn't right, but I didn't sense any duplicity in Gayle's words or actions. And what difference did it make, if she was attracted to me? Was it such an awful thing? In fact, if she were, I'd almost be forced to take it as a compliment. Over the last few years, several men had made passes at me, though I wasn't all that interested in following through. Sure, they were nice, and I was even friends with one of them, a colleague. He's older ... lots older.He came off the tour boat in a power chair and ran off the slats into the sand. The slats: Daddy and The Twins built a pathway from the dock to the grass. The ice in the winter has pushed the dirt into a sort of a bluff. After the bluff the grass starts.We have two main walkways, one to the house and one to the Inn ... other than the Aerodrome, that's it for paving. No roads, and we don't allow cars. With the watches we don't need 'em ... sorry, them. We do have a. One August night I woke to the sound of Dave Mathiews, playing at near concert-volume outside my window. I like the music, but at four AM on a work night all it did was piss me off. I peeled the bedsheet off of my body and, without my glasses, made my way to the kitchen window to see what the hell was going on.Through the window I could see the offending party, a car parked parallel to the chain link fence. In half-sleep I could make out a motion through the car window, kind of a blur, as if.