My name is Martin Paul, my wife is Carol Holden Paul.  You have no doubt read about our small dinner parties on the Society page.

     This Christmas past we threw one for the express purpose of introducing the firm's newcomer, dashing David Lawrence to meet Carol's ravishingly beautiful former sorority sister, Lavinia Hope whom I had never met before in the flesh.

     To no one's surprise, David and Lavinia hit it off magnificently.  They sat next to each other and chatted quietly with profound interest and after, danced with each other exclusively.  They even left together to reconvene at David's small studio apartment.

     When the rest of the guests had departed from our Riverside townhouse, Carol looked at me with those piercing, dark eyes and knew at once I, too, had fallen helplessly for Lavinia Hope.

     The next time I saw the lovestruck pair together, I was David's best man and Carol was Lavinia's maid of honor.

     As it should've been and, always will be.