Her thoughts drifted back to a Friday, eight months ago, when this allstarted. He had been called into this same inner sanctum when he was hitwith the...bad news. "James, I had an audit of the books in your section, and there is adiscrepancy of $10,650. Now a sheet you signed indicated that all thebookkeeping figures were correct. Did you look at those numbers and checkthem?" Truthfully, Aunt Vera, I didn't! I get so many papers to sign orinitial, I just can't keep track of them all." This is. "Oh I will later, but I figured that here in the galley it was more appropriate to be dressed." I suppose you're right," said Amy, smiling. "I have to admit that if a waiter served me naked on shore I'd be a bit put off." There you go," said Mandy brightly.Neither of them mentioned that the professor was stark naked as she got her food and took it up on deck to eat. Mandy thought it was interesting that most of the other women wore bikini bottoms or some kind of shorts to breakfast, but left. He had assumed she had seen the entire episode.Lucy had just settled down when his mother Linda called. Her first comment was, "My baby was a bad little boy. Maybe I should paddle your bottom too." Oh, mom." You drove Ling crazy," Linda said with a hint of a smile in her voice."She loved the challenge," William countered knowing that it was a true statement. He had to take extreme measures not to be found by her.Linda laughed and said, "She did indeed."It was later when Ed called that the tone. After the women are lowered again, both couples take time to kiss and recover. Then Emma and Sasha come together to kiss each other, then Sasha going to Donald, and Emma to Joseph, they kiss each other in thanks also. The men do not intermingle in the same way with each other. Emma and Sasha understand the step of the two men kissing each other is not a point they are at yet.As all say goodbye a little later, all are a little excited about what is ahead for tomorrow – when they will all.