#46569 - The rest of the day was spent more or less in silence but as the time wore on Amanda’s mood lightened she and Susan were speaking as normal and even a few sniggers could be heard from the kitchen as the preparations continued, she even began talking to me even if it was only to tell me say nothing to anyone who was coming to the party about infidelities to which I agreed and Susan pecked my cheek and said “Good man”. By now the crowd had thinned out and a few more were leaving and a few were getting politely ushered out, I looked around after the last had left and saw that apart from me we had Amanda, Susan, Jenny, a pretty blonde who I didn’t know with a guy who might have arrived with her, another 2 young men were in the kitchen with Jerry, Tim and Alan that made 4 women and 7 men if you included me and somehow I doubted it would.