It was that very lack of objectionable attitudes that kinda bothered me. It was almost too unusual. I wasn’t especially surprised that Victoria in p...articular was being careful; I’d expected that she might be, but still...”We did get an invitation to visit the Sizemores at their place. One which Henrietta looked askance at, I but did nod our acceptance of.One side note, I did get some looks as per my new artificial leg which I had managed to more or less master in short order. Looks yes, but. ’ ‘How come you never told me this before?’ ‘I don’t know… I thought you’d probably laugh at me.’ Ellia laughed then. ‘I think you made the right decision.’ ‘Which one? To not tell you I was planning on asking you in a disturbingly creepy house of repressed childhood angst, to ask you in New Zealand, or maybe just to ask you at all?’ ‘All of them, I think they were all good decisions.’ ‘Me too.’ He kissed her again before he leaned back into his own chair. Ellia was silent for a while, then. She whispered again, "Were you wearing it, honey?" Her words didn't quite sink in at that moment, and I replied quickly that I didn't. She didn't say anything, and my mind repeated her question. "Were you wearing it?" It surprised and startled me that she would even think to ask that. Yet, I was intrigued by the thought. I didn't wear one of her slips, but now that I thought of it, yes, I think I would have liked to do exactly that. As though she were reading my mind, she again whispered, "Do. Macvley and her gaggle of squawking geese, joined by the newly reformed Clinton Elsworth. The self-styled religious leader of Wilkins. Had burst into the Sheriff’s office and were loudly demanding that Sheriff Quigley agree to their demands.Mostly those demands were spur of the moment offenses to the sensibilities of the ladies. Mainly that the prisoners had been naked and had used profane language to them.Elsworth led the crowd, “Sheriff. You must stop this inhumane treatment of these poor.