"To begin with my intentions", he continued, "I want to tell you that there is nothing I'd like better than to share my life with you. I'll be more direct when the time comes, but right now I want you to know that:
One. What you told me is not on your shoulders alone. From now on it is a we issue.
and
Two. I suspect that your Dad has a well-equipped gym in the basement of your childhood home in Princeton."
Caydance moved more closely into Griff’s embrace. “Let’s go home and have strawberry tarte, ice cream, and whipped cream”, she whispered.
Outside the hamburger cafe, Griff took Caydance in his arms on the night-dark Santa Cruz wharf. "I'm aware that if Alarie is the maker of the object that my Dad calls the BOWAK, and if it is not a coincidence that it is now in your studio, there are serious concerns about Alarie's intentions."