We went back upstairs to brush our teeth, but we suddenly felt the bed calling to us and had to answer it for a while. Finally, the angle of the sun streaming through the bedroom windows told me that it was time to go out onto the deck, so we gathered towels, sunscreen, and a couple of socks and went downstairs. I stopped by the kitchen to grab the timer, and we settled down on the lounge chairs and spent twenty-five minutes on our backs, then the same on our stomachs. We’d just turned on our backs again when John and Joe came out to join us.
“What’s with the socks?” Joe said.
I explained and told them where to find socks upstairs in the master bedroom if they had none. John went upstairs for socks, and when he returned, he and Joe stretched out next to Philip and me. Philip handed them
