Danny and Thomas were absolutely stunned. Frances shot to her feet, red faced, and furious. All three of them were absolutely soaked!

"What the hell do you think you're doing?" cried Frances.

"I could ask you the same, " Daphne blurted.

"You know what we are doing. Thomas invited you to join us."

"What! You mean his hair-brained scheme about setting up a company called Holiday Romance? He didn't mention that you two were involved as well!"

"We were all going to surprise you."

"Well, you certainly did that! And how did Danny get involved?" Daphne gave Danny a contemptuous glance. "Don't tell me - you all think that you have enough 'experience in the field' to pull something like this off?" Daphne sneered.

"Yes, we do Danny," interjected. " And we're just about to meet a professional business advisor to go through our plans with him."

"Well 'Bully for you', " Daphne retorted.

"Calm down Daffy," Thomas soothed. "Why not stick around and hear what he has to say?  It's not like you to be so negative."

"How do you know what I'm like?" Daphne replied.  And, it was just at that point that  Jeremy Stacey arrived and introduced himself.