Even the weather was benign this Friday morning, no more of the insidiously saturating summer drizzle. The morning brighter, promising sunshine, a propitious summer solstice weekend ahead, the augurs looking well, but for whom? Chas, he was tucked away in a luxurious room in the Ritz, his mission charged, as was his passion? Maude and Bess, a new and prosperous looking relationship, the families enjoined in a most extraordinary way? Wade and Wendy, a shaky chat before bedtime, but the makeup s*x made up for everything, least Wade thought so? And what of Casey and Nadia? Although Nadia had reservations, her heart led, and she took Casey, her gibbering nervous wreck of a prospective lover, home, where she reasserted her new ground rules, primarily about him no longer being shifty about w

