Soon they were sitting down to dinner, serving themselves salad, steaks and potatoes that Casey had prepared earlier, all of them except Roy drinking red wine freely and making the sort of conversation that can only come after years of friendship.
Casey was so proud of the way Paul was telling jokes and drolly describing an accident that happened recently at his work, that she allowed herself to drink much more than she should have. But she saw that everyone else was doing the Time and it didn't seem to matter here among friends and, golly, it was fantastic the way a mood could change!
Casey found the steak delicious and laughed wickedly when Roy started telling some of his inevitable dirty jokes. The one thing she specifically had never liked about the spa sallon-owner, when Helen had
