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he asked sheepishly.  Honestly he didn’t
     want to talk about the man Maggie was married to but he needed to remind himself of
     the fact that she was, indeed, married.  Especially after whatever has just passed
     between them.
    “You weren’t a jerk, Jason,” she said kindly.  “You were disappointed.”
    “That doesn’t answer my question,” he returned.  “Did you tell him?’
    “It didn’t come up,” she said, averting her eyes.
    Luckily their food arrived and Maggie put all of her attention on that.  “I have to
     admit, I don’t normally indulge in a big breakfast but sometimes it’s a real treat.”
    Jason nodded.  “I don’t normally eat a large breakfast either; but when I’m on the
     road I try to just in case I end up missing lunch due to a meeting.  Back at home,
     if we’re deep in work mode, Rose makes sure that food comes in.  I can’t guarantee
     that same thing when I’m relying on somebody else’s time table.”
    “I can only hope that we don’t have anymore mishaps like that meal at Claremont ’s.  I think I’d rather skip eating all together than have to eat something like that
     again.”
    Jason agreed. 
    Within an hour they were climbing into a cab and heading for their first meeting of
     the day.  “Remind me again how tight of a schedule we’re on today?”
    Maggie pulled out her tablet.  “Okay, we’ve got a ten a.m. with Nick Austin, a one
     o’clock lunch meeting with the Smith Group and then we have to head back to the hotel
     and change because we’ve got the charity auction at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 
     I’ve got your tux and my gown with the concierge to be pressed and ready to go.  We
     have a limo coming and picking us up at seven so we should have plenty of time after
     lunch to go over the two meetings and get a little time to relax before heading out
     for the night.”
    Jason was exhausted just thinking about it.  “I really packed the schedule, didn’t
     I?”
    Maggie laughed.  “Just a little.”
    “If it had been you doing all of the planning, what would you have done differently?”
    “So far?”
    That didn’t sound good.  “With the whole trip,” he answered.
    “Well, I understand that you’re trying to maximize your time and really, you’ve done
     that with military precision.”
    “But…”
    “But,” she chimed in, “you really didn’t leave a lot of time for incidentals.”
    “Like what?”
    “Well let’s say that this meeting with Nick Austin is going well and we need more
     time with him.  We don’t really have it because three hours after the start of our
     meeting, we’re due to start another one.  I would make sure that we worked in four-hour
     time blocks, nothing less.”
    “Okay,” he said slowly.  “How often do I give us less than four hours?”
    Maggie scrolled through their itinerary and frowned.  “Quite often.  You have several
     appointments that are right on top of each other and then other times you have up
     to eight hours between appointments.  I realize that sometimes that’s all that is
     available but it is going to have us in and out of the car a lot more than is effective.”
    “I didn’t even think to look at it that way.  I was more concerned with getting the
     appointments made than thinking about how efficiently I was spending my time.”  His
     tone was slightly defensive and he hated feeling like he’d made a mistake.
    “It’s okay, Jason.  This was something that you needed an assistant for.  It’s all
     going to work out just fine; some days it will seem like an adventure,” she teased
     and was relieved to see him visibly relax. 
    They pulled up to their first appointment and Maggie gave him a beaming smile.  “Ready?”
     she asked.
    “As I’ll ever be,” he said as he exited the vehicle.
    ****
    They arrived back at the hotel at three-thirty and Maggie already felt as if she’d
     run a marathon.  The first meeting had gone extremely well