1988 (#18) - George's impotence, the request to Paul and Brittany's suspicions

Some time after the famous dinner where Paul discovered Cassandra's identity, Paul himself does not expect George to ring his doorbell. Initially convinced that George has found out all about his relationship with Cassandra, before Paul can make a big mistake is George talking, saying he needs the help of the man who realizes that George has chosen him as a friend to vent his marital problems. A worried George confides to Paul that he suffers from impotence and is afraid that because of his problems Cassandra might betray him; in fact, George reveals to suspect that Cassandra sees a man younger than him, not noticing Paul's rather embarrassed expression. Sure at this point that George wants to entrust him with the task of verifying Cassandra's betrayals, George once again amazes Paul by asking him to have a child with his wife. The request puzzles Paul, but George justifies this proposal by saying that a pregnancy would certainly alienate any possible lover and bring him closer to his youngest wife. Paul, convinced that Cassandra wants everything less than a pregnancy, categorically rejects the man's proposal, not hiding a veil of concern about his situation. Brittany, meanwhile, begins to study Cassandra's behavior by going to feed the doubts of her uncle George, who however rejects the niece's thesis that Cassandra would have married him only for his money. The burden of bearing and holding his story with Cassandra, for Paul, becomes even harder when unexpectedly Mary and Carl tell Paul to accept and be happy for his relationship with Cassandra, considered to be a more suitable woman for him than Lauren. All this, of course, until Mary discovers that Cassandra is a married woman, a situation that is unacceptable to Mary and that increasingly convinces Paul to end his relationship with Cassandra, who, however, does not want to hear reasons and manages, with the weapon of seduction, to control every action of Paul.