" You know this is what is good for you, Dominic. You need a wife and to start a family. You can't keep living the bachelour life. What if you leave it too late? Your mother would never forgive you if you didn't make her a grandmother. It is a good job you got that mess cleaned up. If she saw any of that, she would have been mortified. You know what wives are like down at the boating club. She could never have shown her face again. We would have been boycotted on event invites. For me, it would have been heaven. But you know those things are what keeps your mother happy". Five minutes , that is the amount of time he's been here. Five whole minutes, I was already losing the will. In some ways it was sweet , how much he thrived at keeping mother happy. But I wasn't a fool. That was his own