The caller seemed to think that was a reasonable price. Hell, it would cost more than that to rent a country club for a dance. Grace was assured that ...none of the women attending were virgins with men, but most, if not all, would be virgins with dogs. On that note, Grace added a $1,000 per hour surcharge because she would have to provide at least one employee to show the girls how to interact with the dogs.Okay, that was still acceptable, so a tentative agreement was made for a two-hour party at. Between the wind and the tightness in her chest she was stopped. Her response dissolved in a bone chilling cough. To call what Laurie emitted a cough was a gross exaggeration, it was more like an explosion, a convulsive expulsion of yellow green phlegm accompanied by a deep low throat tearing moan, a viscerally repugnant raw scraping rasp akin to fingernails on a chalkboard, a hacking whistling wheeze, a short hoarse gasp for air. It was as if, vomiting into her lungs, she was drowning in. You owe me nothing. I owe you fealty, as does my lord husband, I should add. I owe him things that I can no longer give him. Since I cannot give him that, how I can ask it of him, not that I could, anyway? He’s a man and takes what he can get from a lady, wench, or maiden alike. A woman does as much when she can, just look at the Queen. It’s just seldom that a lass can do as a lad or a man does,” Maggie confessed her true attitude in the presence of her own husband.I flipped Maggie over and. He walked in to see him at his desk grading papers. He looked up with a big smile to greet him.In a joking tone, Mr. Grist called out. "Hi there Yankee neighbor." I've got a question for you. Who are the school custodians; I am needing a pencil sharpener."Mr. Grist kept smiling and responded. "Those things are garbage; don't know why they buy them. Mr. Sickles is the one to ask. Ms. Anderson mainly does the cleaning."Josh smiled back "Thanks, I will talk to him when I see him."Just as Josh was.