"You give me the impression you'll like any dessert," Lindsey observed, but after taking a bite of his own, he was obliged to agree that it was pretty good. "It must be good to have angel metabolism."

While the two of them polished the dessert at a rate much faster than the rest of dinner, Lindsey considered what to watch. "I don't know," he finally answered when it came down to his last bite. "I never watched tv much... work got in the way most of the time." And there were too poor to afford one when he was a kid.