"Let's eat lunch first at that café by the bus stop. If you don't mind I'm going to stay here for a moment, as I need to speak to my granddaughter about something."
He only to quickly picked up the single bag he had brought with him and headed out toward the café.
An idea had begun to emerge in my consciousness. I wasn't sure if it was a good or bad one, but some instinct bade me go through with it. I turned back to Deshavi. She walked around the back end of the horse her eyes in search of the source of her flirtatious interest. She found me instead. Her cheeks pinked and she made to turn to go back around the horse, but I motioned for her to come and reluctantly she obeyed.
She no doubt expected another sermon, which is why I think it was a surprise to her when all I said was, "You're going to eat lunch with us before we leave."
"Who's us?" She asked puzzled.
"Me and the man, whom you've acted little better in front of, than a broodmare in estrus would behave with a stallion around."
Deshavi's face turned beet red and it was a relief to see that shame was an emotion that could still be evoked in her.
"Tie your horse off and come."
She just stood there and for a moment it looked like she was about to cry.
I sighed and gentled my tone down some. "Go tie your horse off Deshavi."
She turned and did as I said and then slipped through the fence to walk beside me toward the café. She kept side glancing at me and then finally she stopped and so did I.
"Why? If you disapprove of me so much, then why this? Are you trying to embarrass me?"
"No Deshavi, you know I wouldn't do that, perhaps as a child but not now. You're an adult and you make your own decisions, even as you have to live with them."
"Then why are you making me do this?" She exclaimed.
I decided to give her the simple truth, "Because for once Deshavi you've actually picked out a man with real substance to him. I wouldn't mind seeing you matched up with him at all."
Her face reflected genuine shock, as her mouth fell open.
I gently pushed up on her chin closing her mouth, as with a slight smile I started out for the café again. She caught up and I could still see that she was trying to figure out my sudden role reversal.
"But he's white! I thought you would want me to be with someone of our own blood?"