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I rushed to the door when the bell sounded Jake surpriseddressed in a sports jacket and tie He had a box of candy too

"You didn't have to get dressed up, Jake" I said laughing

"I couldn't i properly attired," he said as he entered "Sweets for the sweet" He handed me the candy

"Thank you, Jake Is it still raining pretty hard?"

"Slowing up The front's et the Yankees now" he said

When he saw the dinner table, he blew a lohistle,

"Very, nice Princess Very nice Looks like you learned a lot being an English maid huh?"

"I knohat bangers and ," I told hihed "I didn't knohat to pick out for wine Jake I thought I'd leave that to you"

"Oh Sure," he said

"You knohere the wine cellar is right?" I asked him

"I do Princess," he said "I even knohich floorboards creak in this house"

I nodded Of course he did He had once lived here a long, long tio

"Okay, Jake I'll get things started while you do that," I told him and went to the kitchen

When I brought in our salads, he had already opened two bottles of wine and poured lass It looked like he had poured himself a second already

"One thing about Frances," he said "She always had good wine, whether it be a good California wine or French She was a very refined woman, classy," he added "Let's have a toast to her" He held up his glass and I lifted lasses after he said "To Frances who I'ht wherever she is"