Company
Twelve years later
"Now miss Turner, stand still while I get your dress on now," Anna tried to put Charlene's dress on.
"No," Charlene ran out of the room in her slip, she saw her father walking up the stairs, "Father, I simply detest the dress mother picked out for me."
William pointed to Charlene's room, "Go put it on before Norton, Elizabeth, and Michael Commoner come."
"Michael, father, when him, and Lance get together, there absolutely terrible," Charlene ran back into her room, "I hate Michael!"
William walked into Lance's room, "Lance, now you need to be good this evening, try not to torment your sister, and tell Michael to behave to okay?"
Lance tied his tie, and then put on his jacket, "Father, I will try, okay"
William straightened Lance's tie, "That's all I could ask for."
Lance looked towards his door, "Hello mother, you look nice this evening, may I escort you down to dinner?"
Crystal curtsied, "You most certainly may."
Charlene walked into Lance's room, "Mother, why do I have to wear a girdle, they hurt."
"Maybe if you weren't fat, then you won't hate it so much," Lane put out his tongue at his sister, then noticed his father glare at him, "Sorry, I couldn't resist."
Charlene ignores him, "Mother why do we have to be in pain, while the guys don't?"
"Because we have to be presentable to our men," Crystal smiled at her husband.
Charlene stared at her mother, "Mother, I don't have a guy to present myself for," she stared at Lance, "At least not one worth being presentable for."
"Well I was going to ask if you would like me to escort you to dinner, but I don't think I'm worth you being presentable for, after all I am just your father after all," William kissed his daughters cheek.
Crystal heard the baby cry, "Oh I need to go get Thomas out of his crib."
William smiled, "Thomas will love knowing he just has to cry to get his mothers attention."
Crystal stared hard at William, "He's only five months old, he needs his mother, how can you just stand there, and not want to attend to him?"
William laughed, "It's not as easy as it looks," he heard Thomas stop crying, then he noticed Charlene was gone, "Where's Charlene?"
Charlene walked in with Thomas, she looked up at her father, "Dad I couldn't bare to hear him crying, he's just a baby, and the only guy in this house worth looking presentable for."
Crystal took Thomas from Charlene, "Come to mommy baby," she left the room with her baby, "You are going to be very good looking, just like your father, and brother."
Charlene stared at her father, "Dad will you escort me to dinner tonight?"
William smiled at his daughter, "Of course, I will be honored to."
Later when The Commoner's, and The Turner's were sitting in the parlor after dinner.
Elizabeth held Thomas, then looked at Crystal, "Three children, you probably haven't had any time to be romantically alone, having to take care of your three children, and all."
William wrapped an arm around his wife, "Elizabeth, we have romantic evenings all the time, how do you suppose we got our three children?"
Norton laughed softly, then looked at William, "Michael is a handful as it is, I don't think we could handle three children, do you want anymore children?"
William looked at his wife, "We want about three more children right darling?"
Crystal walked over to Elizabeth, and took her baby, then sat back next to her husband, "You carry this baby for me, then we'll talk later."
"Three kids, and another on it's way, are you going to get more help?" Norton smiled at Elizabeth, who was watching Thomas play with Crystals necklace, and laughing, we are actually thinking of having one more child, "Elizabeth just thinks she wont be able to give Michael the attention she thinks he needs."
Elizabeth stood up, "It's getting late, we should get home," she took her shawl from Darrin."
Jack barged in just as Elizabeth was getting ready to open the door, "Mrs. Commoner, you aren't trying to leave without saying hello to me, now are you?"
Elizabeth smiled, "Of course I'm not, what brings you here?"
"My grandchildren, and there parents, which one of whom is my daughter," Jack walked into the parlor, "Crystal, the best treasure I ever received in life."
Crystal looked up from playing with Thomas, who was still playing in her arms, "Hello father, how are you?"
Jack walked into the lobby, and called up the stairs, "Lance, Charlene, come down here, and give your grandfather a hug!"
Lance came running down the stairs, and jumped into Jacks arms, "Grandpa, where have you been for the last two years?"
"On my boat, prancing along London streets," Jack walked back into the parlor, and looked at Thomas in his daughters arms, then stared at Elizabeth, "So I see you, and Norton had another child, how wonderful."
Crystal stood up, and handed the baby to her father, "Father, this is your grandson Thomas, he's five months old."
Jack smiled, "I should come, and visit you more often."
"Yes, you should father," Crystal looked down at her oldest son, "Lance, where is Charlene?"
"Here I am mother," Charlene ran down the stairs, and kissed her grandpa's cheek, "How long are you visiting grandpa?"
"Yes grandpa will you be here for when the baby come?" Lance made a funny face at Thomas, which caused him to laugh.
Jack stared down at his newest grandson, "You didn't have much time to be the baby have you?"
"It's true, but these things happen," William walked over next to where his family were standing, "So are you going to be here for a while Jack?"
"I hope not," Norton stood to his feet, "Lance, where is Michael?"
Lance looked at Charlene, "Where's Michael?"
Charlene rolled her eyes, "He tried to kiss me, so I pushed him into a closet, and locked the door, he's in grandpa Jack's closet in the guest room upstairs."
Norton, and Elizabeth hurried up stairs to get their son.
William stared hard at his daughter, "Now Miss Turner, you go up to your room, your mother will be up there to talk to you, then I will be in there after her."
Jack handed Lance the baby, and then wrapped his arm around Charlene's shoulders, and looked at William, "You two allow me to talk to my granddaughter," he lead his granddaughter upstairs, he turned, and looked at Lance, "Lance why don't you come up with Thomas."
After The Commoners left, William lead his wife into the parlor.
William looked at Crystal, "This is the second time Charlene has locked Michael into the closet, that boy is definitely to much for them to handle, he's fourteen, and he's trying to kiss my twelve year old daughter. You would think by now that Michael Commoner would had learned respect for ladies by now, after all he is fourteen. Why can't he be like Lance?"
"Sweetie, Michael is just at that age when some boys start to like girls," Crystal wrapped her arms around her husbands neck, "Our daughter is starting to find interest in boys as well, and our son is starting to like girls. Chalene just doesn't like Michael Commoner is all."
:"Why do our children have to grow up," William placed his hand on his wife's stomach, "Do you think you could hold onto this baby for a few more years?"
Crystal shook her head, "Sorry Sweetie, this baby is going to come when it's ready, which the doctor says is another four, to five months."
"No, there too young to go on a pirates ship for two months jack," William stared at Jack.
Jack came downstairs into the parlor, he turned to his daughter, "Crystal my most valuable treasure, can I take the kids to sea with me for a couple of months?"
"Father, you heard William, the answer is no there too young, especially Thomas, he's' only five months," Crystal shook her head.
"I wasn't going to invite Thomas, just Charlene, and Lance," Jack stared at the two, "You'll think about it, got it," he went back upstairs before Crystal, of William could react.
Crystal sat on the sofa, "I don't know who's worse, the children, or him."
William thought for a moment, "You know darling, going on the pirate ship will be a good experience for them, they could learn about there grandfather, as he does what he does best."
Crystal glared at her husband, " You just said that you didn't think that Michael should be kissing your twelve year old daughter. There will be more pirates try to do more then kiss your daughter on the ship, and w3ho's to say she won't like it next time?"
"Girls like Charlene aren't into dirty pirates, or any kind of pirates," William wrapped his arms around Crystal, "She's only twelve , the other guys are in there late teens, through early fifties.":
"So I was sixteen when we got together," Crystal looked at William.
"Well we weren't on a pirate ship," William thought for a moment, "What if Charlene stayed home?"
"She'll throw a tantrum," Crystal rolled her eyes, "And no matter how much the twins fight, they still can't stand being away from one another for more then a couple of days," she stood up, and started up the stairs, " None of my children are going, and that's my final word."
"What if I went with them, after all it's only two months, I won't miss anything special," William regretted those words as he saw his wife's expression, "Darling, I didn't mean anything by that."
Crystal ran up to her room, and locked her husband out, then crawled into bed.
William tried to open the door to their bedroom, and then knocked on his door, "Crystal, let me in please, I was stupid for saying that."
"You got the stupid part right," Crystal sat up, and crossed her arms in front of her chest as she glared at the door.
William hit the door, "Crystal, if you don't let me in, I'm going to break down the door!"
"Go ahead, I am not getting out of bed," Crystal laid back down, and covered herself up with the blanket.
"You are really pushing my last nerve, I can't stand being near you when you get in those moods, I am going to the Tavern, maybe I'll fine another warm bed to sleep in there. This house is getting a little to cold for me," William turned as he saw his daughter walk out of her room.
Charlene looked at her father confused, "Why did you say all that mean stuff to mother?"
William knelt down in front of his daughter, "What did I tell you about eaves dropping Missy?"
"I wasn't really eaves dropping, really I wasn't, it's just that you were talking so loudly it was hard not to hear. After all father, I do sleep in the room right next to yours, and mothers bedroom," Charlene began to cry, "I don't like when you go have a beer, it always makes mother so upset, she waits in the parlor hoping you come through the door. Last time she didn't go back to bed until five in the morning, and that was just because you came home."
William wrapped his daughter into a hug, "Sorry Charlene, I guess I better keep trying to get back into your mothers, and my room."
Charlene walked to her parents room, "Mother, can you please let father in, he's keeping me awake, yell at him in your room please."
Crystal walked o the door with Thomas in her arms, she opened the door, "Sorry Charlene," she looked at her husband, "You could come in here if you want to."
William watched Charlene disappear back into her own room, then he walked into his room, and up to his wife, then he took his son into his arms, "Thomas, I think it's almost about time for you to start sleeping in your big brothers room," he stepped into the hall way, and called for Anna, "Anna, will you be so kind as to put Thomas in lance's room?"
"Yes sir," Anna took Thomas from William, then laid him in his basket net, and rolled him out of The Turners room, "You are a big boy now sleeping in the same room as your big brother."
William shut his bedroom door, and then looked at his wife, "How could you make me look like an idiot in front of our child?"
"You don't even care that I am going to have your baby in the next four months," Crystal rubbed her stomach, "If I wasn't pregnant, I really wouldn't mind for you to go with my father with the kids for two months, it's just that I am pregnant, and I want you to be here for when I have our next child."
William walked over to his wife, and wrapped his arms around her, kissing her on the top of her head, "I know darling, it's just that I want the children to know about pirates, after all it was pirates that made you, and me."
"I do to sweetie," Crystal thought for a moment, "The children could go with father when he goes back to sea for only one month though, and Thomas can not go with them."
William put his nightclothes on, then crawled into bed with his wife wrapped in his arms, "You are an amazing women you know."
"What do you think of Brendan?" Crystal patted her stomach.
"Our gardener, he's a fine young man," William placed his hand on his wife's stomach, "Why did you ask?"
"I caught Charlene kissing him the other day by the stables, it was a small kiss on the cheek, then he gave her one of the roses from the garden," Crystal smiled, "I still have the very first flower you ever gave me."
William looked at his wife, "Charlene, and the gardener?"
"Yes the gardener," Crystal jumped when she felt the baby kick, she looked at her husband, "What do you want, a son, or a daughter?"
William placed his hand on his wife's pregnant stomach, "Another Turner, that's all I want."
Crystal smiled, "We never actually had a life without our children, because I was pregnant when we got married, then eleven years later I became pregnant again, and now here I am five months later carrying the next child."
William lied his head on his wife's stomach, and looked up into her eyes, "We have been busy since you, and I met haven't we, we slept together the same day we met, and were married some short time later, and then you found that you were pregnant with the twins. Well at least we had elven years without you having have been pregnant right?"
"Well that's only because you were with father for two years, a couple a years ago, but as soon as you came back, we had Thomas thirteen months later. So actually it was more like ten year, and something months I wasn't carrying one of your children. I am actually considering having separate beds, or maybe rooms."
William removed his wife's nightgown, and began to kiss her stomach all the way up to her lips, "I love you, and I will never leave your side again, those two years were so boring."
"For some reason I doubt you were that bored sweetie, " Crystal removed her husbands shirt, "I did miss being this close to you like this."
"Let's forget about those two years of me being gone, and focus on what we have waiting for us in the future," William stared at everyone of his wife's futures, and rubbed her stomach, he smiled when he felt the baby kick, "At least I was there for all three pregnancies."
"I almost forget that I was only pregnant three times, Lance, and Charlene are so different," Crystal places her hands on Williams's bare chest. We have been married for twelve years."
"You have made me happy darling," William wrapped his arms around his wife.
"I want to put my nightgown back on now," Crystal looked up into Williams's eyes.
William reached over the bed for her nightgown, then helped her put it back on, and wrapped her in his arms, "Good night darling."
Twelve years later
"Now miss Turner, stand still while I get your dress on now," Anna tried to put Charlene's dress on.
"No," Charlene ran out of the room in her slip, she saw her father walking up the stairs, "Father, I simply detest the dress mother picked out for me."
William pointed to Charlene's room, "Go put it on before Norton, Elizabeth, and Michael Commoner come."
"Michael, father, when him, and Lance get together, there absolutely terrible," Charlene ran back into her room, "I hate Michael!"
William walked into Lance's room, "Lance, now you need to be good this evening, try not to torment your sister, and tell Michael to behave to okay?"
Lance tied his tie, and then put on his jacket, "Father, I will try, okay"
William straightened Lance's tie, "That's all I could ask for."
Lance looked towards his door, "Hello mother, you look nice this evening, may I escort you down to dinner?"
Crystal curtsied, "You most certainly may."
Charlene walked into Lance's room, "Mother, why do I have to wear a girdle, they hurt."
"Maybe if you weren't fat, then you won't hate it so much," Lane put out his tongue at his sister, then noticed his father glare at him, "Sorry, I couldn't resist."
Charlene ignores him, "Mother why do we have to be in pain, while the guys don't?"
"Because we have to be presentable to our men," Crystal smiled at her husband.
Charlene stared at her mother, "Mother, I don't have a guy to present myself for," she stared at Lance, "At least not one worth being presentable for."
"Well I was going to ask if you would like me to escort you to dinner, but I don't think I'm worth you being presentable for, after all I am just your father after all," William kissed his daughters cheek.
Crystal heard the baby cry, "Oh I need to go get Thomas out of his crib."
William smiled, "Thomas will love knowing he just has to cry to get his mothers attention."
Crystal stared hard at William, "He's only five months old, he needs his mother, how can you just stand there, and not want to attend to him?"
William laughed, "It's not as easy as it looks," he heard Thomas stop crying, then he noticed Charlene was gone, "Where's Charlene?"
Charlene walked in with Thomas, she looked up at her father, "Dad I couldn't bare to hear him crying, he's just a baby, and the only guy in this house worth looking presentable for."
Crystal took Thomas from Charlene, "Come to mommy baby," she left the room with her baby, "You are going to be very good looking, just like your father, and brother."
Charlene stared at her father, "Dad will you escort me to dinner tonight?"
William smiled at his daughter, "Of course, I will be honored to."
Later when The Commoner's, and The Turner's were sitting in the parlor after dinner.
Elizabeth held Thomas, then looked at Crystal, "Three children, you probably haven't had any time to be romantically alone, having to take care of your three children, and all."
William wrapped an arm around his wife, "Elizabeth, we have romantic evenings all the time, how do you suppose we got our three children?"
Norton laughed softly, then looked at William, "Michael is a handful as it is, I don't think we could handle three children, do you want anymore children?"
William looked at his wife, "We want about three more children right darling?"
Crystal walked over to Elizabeth, and took her baby, then sat back next to her husband, "You carry this baby for me, then we'll talk later."
"Three kids, and another on it's way, are you going to get more help?" Norton smiled at Elizabeth, who was watching Thomas play with Crystals necklace, and laughing, we are actually thinking of having one more child, "Elizabeth just thinks she wont be able to give Michael the attention she thinks he needs."
Elizabeth stood up, "It's getting late, we should get home," she took her shawl from Darrin."
Jack barged in just as Elizabeth was getting ready to open the door, "Mrs. Commoner, you aren't trying to leave without saying hello to me, now are you?"
Elizabeth smiled, "Of course I'm not, what brings you here?"
"My grandchildren, and there parents, which one of whom is my daughter," Jack walked into the parlor, "Crystal, the best treasure I ever received in life."
Crystal looked up from playing with Thomas, who was still playing in her arms, "Hello father, how are you?"
Jack walked into the lobby, and called up the stairs, "Lance, Charlene, come down here, and give your grandfather a hug!"
Lance came running down the stairs, and jumped into Jacks arms, "Grandpa, where have you been for the last two years?"
"On my boat, prancing along London streets," Jack walked back into the parlor, and looked at Thomas in his daughters arms, then stared at Elizabeth, "So I see you, and Norton had another child, how wonderful."
Crystal stood up, and handed the baby to her father, "Father, this is your grandson Thomas, he's five months old."
Jack smiled, "I should come, and visit you more often."
"Yes, you should father," Crystal looked down at her oldest son, "Lance, where is Charlene?"
"Here I am mother," Charlene ran down the stairs, and kissed her grandpa's cheek, "How long are you visiting grandpa?"
"Yes grandpa will you be here for when the baby come?" Lance made a funny face at Thomas, which caused him to laugh.
Jack stared down at his newest grandson, "You didn't have much time to be the baby have you?"
"It's true, but these things happen," William walked over next to where his family were standing, "So are you going to be here for a while Jack?"
"I hope not," Norton stood to his feet, "Lance, where is Michael?"
Lance looked at Charlene, "Where's Michael?"
Charlene rolled her eyes, "He tried to kiss me, so I pushed him into a closet, and locked the door, he's in grandpa Jack's closet in the guest room upstairs."
Norton, and Elizabeth hurried up stairs to get their son.
William stared hard at his daughter, "Now Miss Turner, you go up to your room, your mother will be up there to talk to you, then I will be in there after her."
Jack handed Lance the baby, and then wrapped his arm around Charlene's shoulders, and looked at William, "You two allow me to talk to my granddaughter," he lead his granddaughter upstairs, he turned, and looked at Lance, "Lance why don't you come up with Thomas."
After The Commoners left, William lead his wife into the parlor.
William looked at Crystal, "This is the second time Charlene has locked Michael into the closet, that boy is definitely to much for them to handle, he's fourteen, and he's trying to kiss my twelve year old daughter. You would think by now that Michael Commoner would had learned respect for ladies by now, after all he is fourteen. Why can't he be like Lance?"
"Sweetie, Michael is just at that age when some boys start to like girls," Crystal wrapped her arms around her husbands neck, "Our daughter is starting to find interest in boys as well, and our son is starting to like girls. Chalene just doesn't like Michael Commoner is all."
:"Why do our children have to grow up," William placed his hand on his wife's stomach, "Do you think you could hold onto this baby for a few more years?"
Crystal shook her head, "Sorry Sweetie, this baby is going to come when it's ready, which the doctor says is another four, to five months."
"No, there too young to go on a pirates ship for two months jack," William stared at Jack.
Jack came downstairs into the parlor, he turned to his daughter, "Crystal my most valuable treasure, can I take the kids to sea with me for a couple of months?"
"Father, you heard William, the answer is no there too young, especially Thomas, he's' only five months," Crystal shook her head.
"I wasn't going to invite Thomas, just Charlene, and Lance," Jack stared at the two, "You'll think about it, got it," he went back upstairs before Crystal, of William could react.
Crystal sat on the sofa, "I don't know who's worse, the children, or him."
William thought for a moment, "You know darling, going on the pirate ship will be a good experience for them, they could learn about there grandfather, as he does what he does best."
Crystal glared at her husband, " You just said that you didn't think that Michael should be kissing your twelve year old daughter. There will be more pirates try to do more then kiss your daughter on the ship, and w3ho's to say she won't like it next time?"
"Girls like Charlene aren't into dirty pirates, or any kind of pirates," William wrapped his arms around Crystal, "She's only twelve , the other guys are in there late teens, through early fifties.":
"So I was sixteen when we got together," Crystal looked at William.
"Well we weren't on a pirate ship," William thought for a moment, "What if Charlene stayed home?"
"She'll throw a tantrum," Crystal rolled her eyes, "And no matter how much the twins fight, they still can't stand being away from one another for more then a couple of days," she stood up, and started up the stairs, " None of my children are going, and that's my final word."
"What if I went with them, after all it's only two months, I won't miss anything special," William regretted those words as he saw his wife's expression, "Darling, I didn't mean anything by that."
Crystal ran up to her room, and locked her husband out, then crawled into bed.
William tried to open the door to their bedroom, and then knocked on his door, "Crystal, let me in please, I was stupid for saying that."
"You got the stupid part right," Crystal sat up, and crossed her arms in front of her chest as she glared at the door.
William hit the door, "Crystal, if you don't let me in, I'm going to break down the door!"
"Go ahead, I am not getting out of bed," Crystal laid back down, and covered herself up with the blanket.
"You are really pushing my last nerve, I can't stand being near you when you get in those moods, I am going to the Tavern, maybe I'll fine another warm bed to sleep in there. This house is getting a little to cold for me," William turned as he saw his daughter walk out of her room.
Charlene looked at her father confused, "Why did you say all that mean stuff to mother?"
William knelt down in front of his daughter, "What did I tell you about eaves dropping Missy?"
"I wasn't really eaves dropping, really I wasn't, it's just that you were talking so loudly it was hard not to hear. After all father, I do sleep in the room right next to yours, and mothers bedroom," Charlene began to cry, "I don't like when you go have a beer, it always makes mother so upset, she waits in the parlor hoping you come through the door. Last time she didn't go back to bed until five in the morning, and that was just because you came home."
William wrapped his daughter into a hug, "Sorry Charlene, I guess I better keep trying to get back into your mothers, and my room."
Charlene walked to her parents room, "Mother, can you please let father in, he's keeping me awake, yell at him in your room please."
Crystal walked o the door with Thomas in her arms, she opened the door, "Sorry Charlene," she looked at her husband, "You could come in here if you want to."
William watched Charlene disappear back into her own room, then he walked into his room, and up to his wife, then he took his son into his arms, "Thomas, I think it's almost about time for you to start sleeping in your big brothers room," he stepped into the hall way, and called for Anna, "Anna, will you be so kind as to put Thomas in lance's room?"
"Yes sir," Anna took Thomas from William, then laid him in his basket net, and rolled him out of The Turners room, "You are a big boy now sleeping in the same room as your big brother."
William shut his bedroom door, and then looked at his wife, "How could you make me look like an idiot in front of our child?"
"You don't even care that I am going to have your baby in the next four months," Crystal rubbed her stomach, "If I wasn't pregnant, I really wouldn't mind for you to go with my father with the kids for two months, it's just that I am pregnant, and I want you to be here for when I have our next child."
William walked over to his wife, and wrapped his arms around her, kissing her on the top of her head, "I know darling, it's just that I want the children to know about pirates, after all it was pirates that made you, and me."
"I do to sweetie," Crystal thought for a moment, "The children could go with father when he goes back to sea for only one month though, and Thomas can not go with them."
William put his nightclothes on, then crawled into bed with his wife wrapped in his arms, "You are an amazing women you know."
"What do you think of Brendan?" Crystal patted her stomach.
"Our gardener, he's a fine young man," William placed his hand on his wife's stomach, "Why did you ask?"
"I caught Charlene kissing him the other day by the stables, it was a small kiss on the cheek, then he gave her one of the roses from the garden," Crystal smiled, "I still have the very first flower you ever gave me."
William looked at his wife, "Charlene, and the gardener?"
"Yes the gardener," Crystal jumped when she felt the baby kick, she looked at her husband, "What do you want, a son, or a daughter?"
William placed his hand on his wife's pregnant stomach, "Another Turner, that's all I want."
Crystal smiled, "We never actually had a life without our children, because I was pregnant when we got married, then eleven years later I became pregnant again, and now here I am five months later carrying the next child."
William lied his head on his wife's stomach, and looked up into her eyes, "We have been busy since you, and I met haven't we, we slept together the same day we met, and were married some short time later, and then you found that you were pregnant with the twins. Well at least we had elven years without you having have been pregnant right?"
"Well that's only because you were with father for two years, a couple a years ago, but as soon as you came back, we had Thomas thirteen months later. So actually it was more like ten year, and something months I wasn't carrying one of your children. I am actually considering having separate beds, or maybe rooms."
William removed his wife's nightgown, and began to kiss her stomach all the way up to her lips, "I love you, and I will never leave your side again, those two years were so boring."
"For some reason I doubt you were that bored sweetie, " Crystal removed her husbands shirt, "I did miss being this close to you like this."
"Let's forget about those two years of me being gone, and focus on what we have waiting for us in the future," William stared at everyone of his wife's futures, and rubbed her stomach, he smiled when he felt the baby kick, "At least I was there for all three pregnancies."
"I almost forget that I was only pregnant three times, Lance, and Charlene are so different," Crystal places her hands on Williams's bare chest. We have been married for twelve years."
"You have made me happy darling," William wrapped his arms around his wife.
"I want to put my nightgown back on now," Crystal looked up into Williams's eyes.
William reached over the bed for her nightgown, then helped her put it back on, and wrapped her in his arms, "Good night darling."