"Dotty, Amanda was dressed up, in a sexy black dress, high heel shoes and running to jump on the train!" Joe said excitedly into the phone. "I saw her, just a little bit ago. Who gets on a train dressed like that?"
"Joe, I don't know what you are so excited about…Amanda had plans…that is all." Dotty held the phone in one hand, her purse in the other, as she tapped one foot on the ground as she listened to Joe King on the phone.
Dotty had been on her way out the door, her friends from her garden club were in the car; she'd come back in to get something and that was when the phone rang. She thought it just might be Amanda or the boys. Instead, she'd picked up the phone to a frantic call from Joe.
"Who did she have plans with? Lee Stetson?"
"Yes, Lee Stetson. Joe, you do know that the two of them are dating?"
"Well, yes but…"
"And, have been seeing each other for quite some time now?"
"Not that long, some months, yes!"
"Well, Joe, it really isn't my place to say anything…" Dotty began, as she tried to control her tongue. After all, what if Amanda said no; considering her state of mind the first time Lee had attempted to propose? But then again, Amanda and Lee had gotten even closer since then and Amanda appeared to have moved past whatever her concerns were. But then on the other hand…
"Dotty?"
"Oh, yeah, well…let's just say that I have it on good authority that Lee is proposing to Amanda right now, well not right this minute but tonight, you know what I mean."
"What!?"
"Well, Joe, I really do need to be going. As you know, the boys won't be back until Sunday."
"What about Amanda?" Joe asked.
"She'll be back sometime Sunday as well. Well, bye Joe!"
"She's going to be with Stetson until then?" Joe asked incredulously, but by this time, Dotty had hung up the phone, and he found himself talking to a dial tone.