" You also believe that you need only endure a few hours. You may bealready considering how you may aid another at the first chance you have.You are m...istaken. Time is what I will it here. I could keep you here forcenturies and there would be no one who would know. Not even you."Rolf tried to comprehend the meaning of that. Had he been sleeping foryears? Had time passed so much in a single night?Nalice raised her left hand and pointed to her father's distant camp."There sits my father. He squats. I need to have a talk with him—a serious talk. Mack's thought about his mother's reaction turned out to be true. When he got up and went to the kitchen, his mom was at the stove. She murmured a "good morning" to him, but avoided his eyes. She fixed them breakfast, and they sat at the kitchen table and ate in silence, until she broke it by saying: "We should start this morning on the French Revolution." She was referring to their home schooling. "Okay," Mack replied. "Is there something. "My wife is standing next to me, totally nude, gone are all her reservations, Alice is the wife I always wanted, a cock sucking and fucking woman. Would you like to say hello?" The response was positive and he handed the phone to his wife; he left her to it while he put the kettle on for breakfast. All he heard was laughter and giggles and then a goodbye. She came into the kitchen, naked. Gone were the days when nudity would have bought on gasps of horror and her immediate grab for a towel, now. I'll be over when we get back so I can show you and Erin the ring. It's an heirloom from Brock's family and it's beautiful." I'll look forward to it," Sam said. "Congratulations."Meredith turned off her phone and turned to her fiancé."You asked my father for my hand in marriage?" she asked."It seemed like the right thing to do," Brock answered."It was," Meredith said. "It was absolutely the right thing to do. God, every time I think I can't love you any more than I already do, you do something.