‘It is my father who will give us trouble for it if I have to go back to him for more money for the castle accounts. You know he will say we are not...fit to control our own money and send some spy to make us live on campaign biscuits. Is it not enough that he has had the disgusting insolence to push myself and my expensive brother onto your fingers to pay for our extravagance? What will you use for your library an’ you spend all you have on sugar.’ ‘What does’t care what I spend on our. In a way this was typical of Luke; he was getting older and Christine had thought he may have wanted to be a little more adult, but his upbringing didn't allow him to call his elders by their first name. He had always called her Auntie Chris and he wanted it to stay that way. Christine was happy that was the case and proud that this wonderful teenager considered her his aunt."That's just fine by me, Lucy. Now run upstairs and have that bath."Lucy was not about to disagree. She just nodded a yes. ’ ‘There is one thing,’ she said, noting the question in his eyes. ‘What’s that, Babe?’ She leaned up and whispered in his ear, ‘You haven’t shown me where you work.’ ‘Well, we’re heading that way right now,’ he remarked. ‘I have to grab my jacket anyway.’ They crossed the lobby and turned down the hallway that leads to his office. ‘Isn’t much, but I call it home.’ It was a nice room, at twelve feet square or more, with a large window that looked out onto the woods nearby. It was simple. "More silence. "So you don't necessarily see me with any particular man?" No. Its you I want to watch, not him."That night we made love for the first time since the big blow-up. Five minutes into it she asked me in a voice hoarse with passion:"Are you imagining me with someone else right now?"I wasn't, but I didn't think that was what she wanted to hear. "Yeah," I whispered in her ear."Who?" Tony - the young guy in the mailroom." Is he fucking me good?" Very good" I said, "you've already had.