It's Wednesday afternoon and I'm off."Frankie had lost track of time and Helen's schedule. "What's new?" Nothing. Just trying to do your job and mine ...too. I hope you forgive mewhen you get home for not keeping everything around here as neat as youdo."Frankie laughed aloud. She had always taken pride in keeping Helen'shouse as clean as could be. "That's okay. You're busy." I am. And it's a real pain to spend my afternoon catching up on payingbills while you're out lying on the beach." You could. ’ ‘On the button babe… er I mean that’s a very correct assumption.’ When Bluey had tasted his beer Katrina asked, ‘What are your plans for the next few weeks?’ ‘I’ll drift down Texas way. I was born here in San Francisco. My mom married an Irishman name of Toohey and a year later I was born to expand them into a family and they moved to Sydney. Dad was in shipping. I stayed behind in Aussie when they left after dad won a new position and reared myself.’ ‘God how old were you?’ ‘Fourteen. I went. "How's Nhu?" he asked."Oh, she's fine," I laughed silently. I could have seen that coming. Curious how he thought to ask right after mentioning romantic getaways. "Fixed a fine omelet for breakfast this morning. I promised her last night that I'd get her fixed up with an email address, so don't be surprised if you get an email before the day's out." Ah, okay, thanks," he suddenly seemed to be embarrassed at his interest."Okay then, I'll call back as soon as I here from my guy in Brookings."I. She smiled as she saw the candles, fireplace and heard the music playing. She blushed as Bill brought the suitcases into the bedroom and she saw the big bed turned down. Bill smiled for he knew the bed brought home the thoughts of what they had discussed several times during their chats. He left her there to unpack and knew he would have to settle her fears. When she came back to the main room, she saw the flowers that Bill had brought for her and caught her breath. Bill poured her a glass of.