“Just think. If you’d caught me before your separation, you might have ended up with neither one of us,” said Toby.

Mrs Long thought of her new teaching position. There would be no tubes for any boys she chose to shrink there. She cuddled up to Toby in the bed that night, and he fell asleep long before her.

In the morning, she awoke, to find that he had lit a small fire out on the back terrace.

“All your pills are burned up,” he said, “I’d just feel better if none of your students went missing.”

“It was worth a try,” she laughed, and threw her arms around him.

“I’ve just realised,” said Toby, “I can take you out on a proper date now.”

“Where should we go?” asked Christine.

“There is a play on at the theatre, which you might like to see. There’s a female character, who has a significant role in the story, and a significant appetite for little children.”

“You can certainly compensate me, can’t you?” she said.

Toby thought of all the boys she had caught and eaten, when she had been a giantess. It had been so unfair for those boys, and he had twice proposed marriage to the woman who enjoyed perpetrating their demises. Yet he had averted his own, and loved her for so many years, that the thought of walking away from her never entered his mind.

Toby went out dancing with Christine. He took her to restaurants. He attended functions at her school. He introduced her to his friends, leaving out her giantess origin. He arranged a proper engagement party for them both, something which had not been possible on the giant world.

Toby was simply and inevitably in love.

Christine had left a world behind in pursuit of her new love. She had even left a family behind, or more accurately, it had left her behind first.

All that mattered to her now was Toby.

One night, they were snuggling together in bed, but not engaged in that which they both believed should be saved for marriage.

“Oh I love you!” said Toby, “It defies anything I’d be advised by a counsellor, but with our adventurous history, and the pure raw chemistry, I can’t switch off the fact that I just love you so much!”

Christine laughed unexpectedly.

“What’s funny about that?” asked Toby, “I thought I was being sincere and sentimental.”

“I know you were, darling, but you missed the other meanings of the two words you used. History and Chemistry are two different subjects. The first is one I’ve never taught, not in any of the schools in either of our worlds.”

However, she had been a science teacher, and her knowledge of chemistry had enabled her to invent the size altering pills the first time. Even though he had burned up her supplies, his feelings for her had filled his mind with romance, to the extent that he didn’t realise that she could always invent them again.

Toby and Christine married in fairly limited company, as the origin of their relationship would have raised far too many questions about parallel worlds, and Christine's eating habits.

When the small reception was over, they drove to a scenic hotel, that Toby had picked out, and got into bed with no clothes on.

Christine began laughing.

"It's really rather big, isn't it?"

"That's funny indeed, considering my usual size difference to yours over the years."

"Yes, but in proportion to the rest of your body, what you've got there is rather large."

"I used to think there were two types of women: those who wanted men with large arm muscles and broad shoulders, and those who wanted men with handsome faces. I could only attract the latter, of course. You've taught me something new: namely that the size of what you’re laughing at right now is another consideration."

"Yes, but you can't exactly market that consideration to a girl on the first meeting, can you? Have you shown your consideration to anyone else?"

"You're the first and only viewer."

"Make love to me, my gorgeous young husband."

Toby was completely inexperienced, and felt aroused by the way she showed him how to go about it. He was lying on top of her, with every part of his anatomy positioned in the appropriate places for the deed to be enjoyed.

He lifted his head and looked down at her mouth, as the reading lamp illuminated their bodies for each other to enjoy.

"You're sleeping with a wife who very nearly ate you forever on several occasions, and even did swallow you once," she said, "Is any of the irony lost on you?"

"It's rather exciting," he said.

"I can feel that!" she laughed.

"It doesn't matter that you were married before. I'm so glad I saved myself for you."

"Well you didn't meet your end in my stomach, and I'll make sure you never do, now. We'll be together forever."

He was married to the giantess he loved most, the one who had spent half his lifetime trying to eat him.

What neither Christine nor Toby knew was that the fire had converted both sets of pills into invisible small clouds of vapour. They would both drift around the district, or even the whole world, unseen by anyone. Yet they would either shrink or enlarge anyone who came into contact with them, depending on whether the person walked through the cloud formed by the burnt shrinking pills or whether they walked through the cloud formed by the burnt growth pills. The growth pills cloud, however, could only enlarge someone who had been reduced by the shrinking pills cloud. It was not powerful enough to turn a normal sized person into a giantess.