“You hadn’t, but I already knew that,” I said and turned back to Maddy. With a short, godfather like wave of my hand I gave her permission to speak. “Thank you, sir,” Maddy said and paused. She seemed to undergo a short mental struggle, then said, “Bill and I... Sometimes we talked about finding another like minded couple. So it’s not like this concept is foreign to me. I am nervous but ready.” Maddy paused again, this time with an upraised hand to indicate she still had more to say, and that she was trying to say it the right way. “It’s easy to let your emotions run away in a moment like this, but practically when these two came through my door, and then you, I started to fall in love. We’ll figure out the rest as we go along. Stuff like squeezing the toothpaste at the end or the middle

