Matthew decided something more was needed, to try to bring Brian into the arrangement. He talked to me about his idea, which was that there should be a foursome (this was very soon after Matthew had finally f****d Beth, after keeping her waiting for weeks, an act which I shall describe shortly). The relationship with Beth had been consummated, but Beth had not informed Brian; by now we suspected, as proved to be the case, that all was not well between them. Matthew thought that perhaps Beth’s involvement with us was the cause of strain between Brian and Beth. Later we were to find there was far more to it than that. But Matthew thought that if we had somehow caused the problem, we ought to do what we could to help solve it. Accordingly he suggested to me that we should, as it were, give Br
