Ben stuck out his arm and halted her, “I am sorry. I had forgotten that you knew so little about tonight.” She smiled. “It’s okay. I realise ...that Richard was leading you on just as much as he was me,” she told him. “Anyway, I would never have let him undress me for you in the first place. I prefer to be undressed by the man I am going to have sex with.” Ben smiled. “May I?” he said as he reached for the zipper on the back of her dress. Jan said nothing. Ben gave a small tug of the zipper and. So I'm on the couch checking her out and the commercials cut in and I start to drift off. I guess it was the overtime kicking in.The next thing I know, I'm watching the TV and the picture gets sort of fuzzy, and then it looks like the tube's coming apart. And then there she is: Elaine, in that gown, standing in my living room.I rub my eyes but she's still there. She sees what I'm doing and starts to smile."I could pinch you if you like," she says, "to prove you're not dreaming. But I have other. I frantically changed into my khaki shorts and Hawaiian inspired shirt as the silence from the bathroom gave me no indicator of how much privacy I had left. With my shorts on and starting to button my shirt from the bottom, I heard the door glide open and looked up only to be stunned in amazement. Amelia stood in front of me with her hair pinned up by a large vibrant flower, a bikini top that fit her full breasts perfectly, her midriff exposed showing she’d been taking care of herself as well,. It turned out that Mary's father had been a bookkeeper and she remembered enough to be able to take over that function in the new company.They discussed the possibility of buying another wagon and having two wagons with a pair of oxen pulling each one. They could go back to the four-oxen team when the load called for it. Eddy's father had bought a farm just outside Sacramento, so Eddy suggested that they might buy his cross-country wagon, since it was too large to be practical for the average.