The question was answered. Providing one wore a grey coat and the other a black coat in winter, they would be happy as long as their spouses continued to offer a new car every year or two, vacations in tropical climes and smart clothes to fill all the walk-in closets.

They were friends from the first days at junior high, and that continued through adventures sane and crazy, through boy and girlfriends and all sorts of others in between.

Now they would be buying adjoining parts of an old mansion, recently restored with no expense spared.

And that was their rule and method of living life – No Expense Spared, Ever.

Soon to be known as NESE.