Normally we don’t expect to wait on customers before Calum time and that is still almost two hours away.”He pressed his hand on the signature sens...r and the door curtains changed from rigid steel like condition to soft breezy velvet and brushed the curtain aside, while the lights in his store came on.The sales room was a gold and red affair with antique looking auto-adjusting furniture, low golden coffee tables and an elaborate sales counter looking like the nightmarish kitsch version of what a. A seven- and nine-year-old will stick with something that’s reliably been a good present before.’ He winked, and chuckled.‘I did too,’ Molly agreed.‘What are you up to this year?’ John said conversationally. ‘Still working at that restaurant?’Molly nodded. ‘Yep, I like it there.’‘You look mighty fine in that uniform.’‘Thank you,’ she said politely.‘But what you’re wearing now is fine too,’ he added.Molly’s friendly smile widened, one eyebrow going up ever so slightly. ‘John--are you .... The subject said “the kitty party’. My mind started to race thinking of what was next in store. I clicked on the mail. It said the following:To: SandeepFrom SangeetaSubject: the kitty partyI and my friend Payal and Kunika have a party specially arranged for you. On the last week of Saturday, do you think you could make me dear?Love Sangeeta.I quickly looked into my schedule and checked with my wife if she had any plans. Told her I was going to Mumbai on so and so the date for work. And quickly. ’ There followed one incident that evening, when Anne accidentally trod on Tom’s foot. She apologised immediately, of course, and the two resumed dancing, but Stan caught a gleam in her eye for a moment when she turned to him a moment later. It was on the way home that night that Stan asked about the hesitation he’d noted earlier. ‘When Belinda asked if you minded dancing with Tom, you hesitated a moment. Was that because you didn’t want to be broken away from me?’ ‘No. Well, yes, of course,.