Learning to Love by Catherine Harper

Author:Catherine Harper [Harper, Catherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B017HY6JCO
Goodreads: 27605406
Published: 2015-11-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Picking up a wine glass, Robert toasted his guest. "Here'ssss to our new member of the teaching staff." Looking around their empty table he added, "I hope you'll all welcome her to our sssschool."

Mary looked to the empty seats beside her. "And I think you've had too much to drink. If anyone's driving you home tonight it's me."

"You're a dear," Robert said and drank from his glass.

"And you're drunk," Mary added.

Lowering his glass, Robert pointed to himself and slurred his words. "Me? I beg your pardon, but I think it's you that'sssss drunk, Mary."

Mary picked up her glass and smiled. "We'll see in the morning. But my moneys on you having a bigger hangover."

"Soooo, did you have a good time?" Robert grinned drunkenly. "Because I know I did.—Care for another bottle? Waiter!"

Mary watched the waiter wander over at Roberts's request. Looking to him and shaking her head she was glad that he'd picked up on Roberts's drunkenness.

"I'm sorry, Robert but we've run out of that vintage. I promise we'll have it the next time you come in," he apologized.

Mary nodded her head and mouthed a silent thank you. Turning her attention to Robert, she remarked. "Well, I guess that's the end of the staff outing then."

"Appearsss so," Robert said and drank the remaining drop from his glass. "I don't know about you, but I'm in no fit state to drive. Would you do the honors?"

Mary pushed back her chair and got to her feet, helping Robert to his own, she remarked. "You have a good night?"

"The besssst!" Robert smiled. "Why wouldn't I when I've got such beautiful company with me."

"You're drunk," Mary said, waving away the fumes from his mouth and walking him toward the door.

"And you're gorgeous," Robert said and give her a peck on the cheek. "I might have a hell of a hangover in the morning but you'll still be beautiful. Beautifullest woman I ever saw, you know that?"

Mary looked around and found some of the other dinner guests watching their drunken path toward the door. "You might want to keep your voice down."

"What? But it's true," Robert said and slapped a bald man on back of the head. "Hey, you!"

Seeing him turn with an angry look on his face, Mary tried her best to apologize.

"You see this woman, isn't she wonderful? Well, isn't she?"

Mary shook her head and tried to pull him toward the door. "Don't mind him, he's had a little too much to drink. I'm sorry for disturbing you."

Annoyed that he got no response, Robert turned back to Mary. "Ah, what would he know, the old bag he's sitting with?"

Pulling off his napkin and throwing it to the table, the man remarked, "I beg your pardon?"

"I'm very sorry," Mary said and pulled him even harder than before. Finally getting him going, she looked back over her shoulder and was relieved to see that the man had stayed put in his chair.

"Thank God for that."

Prodding him in the shoulder, Mary demanded. "I don't want to hear another word out of your mouth, you hear me?"

"Yes, Ma'am!" Robert saluted.

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