But I still get first dibs on your room, Sue Ellen."A little later over at the office, I got to thinkin' about what Sue Ellen said about us gettin' ma...rried when she graduated high school next year. And her wantin' to have a baby.I went into her part of the office and pulled up a chair to sit next to her. I reach over and took her hand and said, "Honey, I wanna talk about a couple of things. You said somethin' about us gettin' married after high school, but I was kinda thinkin' you ought to be. I couldn’t watch and turned my tearful face into Ralph’s chest and was comforted when his arm closed around me. “What a baby, Ralph, I thought farm girls were tougher than that.” I opened my eyes to see Caroline grinning and I would gladly have seen her on the whipping bench but I took comfort in the thought that I was the one enveloped in Ralph’s arms.Eventually the count reached twenty-four and the butler restored the birch to the tub, undid his codpiece and inserted his mammoth size pego in. Away we went.We drove down the trail at a snail's pace. I wasn't in any hurry and I certainly didn't want to suddenly find myself in a situation that could get messy. While the trail was wide enough and the track fairly even, it did follow the course of the stream. This meant that we were steering one way for a few minutes and then another as the stream followed the lie of the land and the path of least resistance. It meant that we were also dipping about clumps of trees and outcroppings of. The only thing that saved Natalya Rhinheart from utter heat exhaustion was the large cloak she wore. She was beginning to convince herself of her ambitions as the reason for her taking on this assignment when her camel snorted bringing her attention back. She focused through the haze of the bright sun light toward the city. Her convoy was almost upon its gates and foolishly she had let her mind drift. She berated herself as she passed through the massive stone gates. Instantly she was.