Adriel was tired but happy. The meeting had been positive, an unexpected but welcome surprise had turned up thanks to Ethel and the road to finally courting and mating with her was widely open now. Overall, things were looking up. He found himself spying on her and smiling as he watched her pretend to be busy cleaning up here and there.
Mary would clean the house tomorrow but Ethel needed a distraction at the moment.She knew Adriel would want to start from where his mother stopped on the mating topic, but she was not ready to discuss it with him. She could see him, peeping at her when he thought she was not looking. He kept looking at the clock and then looking at her and pretending to cough as if hinting that it was time for them to head upstairs.
He did it one too many times that Ethe
