Trust me, I know,’ Marie assured him. ‘I don’t intend to ask you how you know that, Marie. But what’s the other scenario?’ Barry asked, for ...nce daring to drop the Lise part of her name. At first Marie-Lise didn’t appear to react to Barry’s transgression, normally she would berate anyone who didn’t use her full name. Strangely if there was just Marie-Lise and yourself present, it never appeared to worry her, but when a third person was there, she would get upset if her full Christian name. She is our only child and we never considered comforting her a chore. As she entered her teen years, these episodes ceased. We normally sleep naked or with minimal cloths (panties or underwear and maybe a teddy or under shirt). We also freely walk around the house in minimal clothes in the mornings and evenings. We have all seen each other naked taking baths or showers and no one pays much attention&hellip, or so my husband and I thought&hellip,until one night she walked into our room while we. I was now technically jobless. He did ask me to come in and talk about it, that he had an idea. I told him I would, but not until around 2:00PM. I had lunch at the Roundhouse. I ate alone. But, that was all right. I was ruminating about what she was thinking right then. She had to be at least mildly concerned by the fact that I hadn't succumbed to her charms; that, since I always had before. But, before, I had been laboring under the illusion that she loved me. That particular illusion was now. How has this happened? How have you been tempted away from the only true way? How have you become a pagan?” Andromeda laughed again. She leaned out and placed her hand on Diana’s bare shoulder, reminding her again of the passion they had shared so recently. She hoped that perhaps her love would persuade Andromeda to return to the service of Aphrodite and forget about this nonsense that the people of the sign of the fish had spread. Rue the day that the emperors had become so soft and tolerant.