.. well, I think of a job as something I go into work and do. Flying in from Madrid and then off to Tokyo, that doesn't sound like what I think of as ...work."I mulled it over a bit. Yeah, it certainly wasn't the way everyone I had grown up with thought of 'work', that was for sure. I could see where she was coming from."Kathy, it's not all it's cracked up to be." Oh yeah?" She had a 'how the hell would you know?' tone to her voice."I'm out there on the Road. I know what the deal is. It sounds. . I want forever, too. But I'm way ahead of you in age. When you turn twenty-one, I'll be almost fifty. You'll be a beautiful young lady. What will you do with a fifty-year old husband?" Husband? As in, you'd MARRY me?" If we were together when you're twenty-one, we'd have been married five years." You'd marry ME?" Haven't I told you that?" We talked about marryin' an' laws an' stuff, but you never just said we'd be married..." Squeal. Her demeanor changed from the sadness of moments before to. "Why gathers thou this herb, my love in Chaster's autumn gloom?This will destroy the little child, that quickens in your womb."I cannot meet his eyes. I feel a bone-deep shame and humiliation. My shoulders slump and I let the tansy fall to the forest floor. I lean against his broad chest, his musculature hard against my cheek."Tam Lin," say I, "please tell me true, have you a chapel graced? Some priest perhaps once marked your brow; a holy cross he traced?" Tis true I was a mortal once, . Cleaning-up, I thought that would be the end of it. It was only half-past nine! I thought that maybe my first assessment of him had been wrong and that, perhaps, a “quick fuck” was all he needed. But I need have had no fears. No sooner were we cleaned-up, than he settled alongside me, with his arms around me, cuddling and kissing me again. This was just too good to be true. We lay there for 20 minutes or so, kissing and cuddling, chatting a bit about trivial stuff, and then I decided I wanted.