He was sent here to ask what he did. Now hewill report on what was said and what he saw.’ Valdemar smirked then, ‘I’m a little surprised that he... didn’t ask you why I allowed you to speak to me that way.’ Jans looked down, ‘He did. I told him that I was here to guide you, but that I was not your servant. He said that if he were you, he’d have killed me for it anyway.’ There was a knock at the door a few minutes later and the man was back, pushing a very nervous-looking boy of about fourteen in. .. most of it in fact." Honey..." No, Mom. I know you've been aware of Dad's shortcomings for a long time now." Phillipe, I love your father. We all have shortcomings as you call them, but your father and I are just as devoted to each other now as we've ever been." I don't believe that. You're more intelligent that he is. You're meeting his needs, but he's not even coming close to meeting yours." What in the world makes you think that?" Mom, I don't spy on the two of you, but there have been. There wasn’t much in the shelter (OK, it was an empty cold-storage locker, well insulated to keep the heat of the wood stove he had installed in and the cold of Long-winter out) except for a bunk and storage spaces, a chair and work-space/eating surface. It was small enough for the stove to heat efficiently, which didn’t mean it was small as the stove was efficient and the insulation stupendous and he had constructed a vis-queen air-lock over the door to prevent drafts. So the two growing girls. Then she met her future husband, fell in love with him, and then they got married. She had my wife when she was twenty-one years old. Then fifty-seven years later I was to be her third lover. I felt very honored to be the lucky man. My mother-in-law was brought up in the days when a girl was pure and innocent until her wedding day. Apparently my mother-in-law was not all that pure on her wedding day. Somehow it made her more human to me. She had been faithful to her husband right up until his.