Anne Sutton said, "I've already promised my friend I'd go out to dinner with her tonight."
'Besides, he's acting like I'm the one begging to have dinner with him!'
With an attitude like that, Anne didn't want to go at all!
'He's been giving me grief all morning. Going to dinner with him would be asking for trouble, wouldn't it?'
Nathan Fawcett said, "Cancel it."
"Aren't you a little too overbearing!" Anne Sutton protested.
Nathan Fawcett looked at her. "You haven't paid me for the room last night, have you? Consider this dinner repayment for the favor you owe me."
The main thing was...
He glanced at his son's expectant gaze.
'It was rare for Ian to want to invite Anne to dinner.'
'As his father, how could he possibly let his son down?'
Anne Sutton looked at Nathan Fawcett and said, "Is all this really necessary?"
Nathan Fawcett said, "What, you're refusing?"
