Terry, hung his head for a moment and then said, “Okay, I’ll do it”

Then, before either one of us could react he looked over at me and added, “You know Sis, I asked her to marry me once. I wanted her to be my trophy wife. I promised her a luxurious home, a fleet of expensive cars, diamonds, a villa in France, a pineapple plantation in Hawaii, our own jet, our own yacht……….and lots and lots more and can you believe, the little fool turned me down?”

“I told you I wanted to be happy, not captive,” she told him.

He looked back at her and put both his hands on her shoulders. “We had a lot of fun in those early days.”

“Yes, we did.”

“You know, maybe if we had gotten married we would have had a few babies of our own.”

“You still could do that you know, with some young chic, some ambitious starlet with fame and fortune in her eyes.”

“Are you kidding me? After you, I never found anyone else worth pursuing.”

“You mean hiding behind.”

“Something like that but you’ve been the only one who ever understood me.”

Bette looked at me and said, “I told him we would have had one helluva wedding night, with him in one wing with his boyfriend and me in another with my girlfriend.” She winked at me and then looked back at him.

“Okay, you two baby machines,” he said glancing at us both. “What do you want me to do?”

Bette looked at me, “Sis?”

“I’m seeing Dr. Wilson on Tuesday to get a complete physical. I’m sure everything is okay but I just want to make sure.”

“You look healthy enough to me,” said Terry, as he stepped back and leaned against the other chair.

“I go in on August 15th,” said Bette. “Maybe we can all three meet there at that time.”

“Okay, let me know when everything is official and I’ll write it down on my calendar.”

“Thanks Terry,” I said, getting up.

“I knew you wouldn’t let us down,” said Bette, looking at him, thanking him with a twinkle in her eye. She then reached over and took my hand. We could hear raucous music in the distance, presumably coming from the front of the ship. She lowered her voice, “Come on baby, let’s go do some rowdy dancing while we still can.”