I’ll never say a word and I’m safe.”I chuckled at the situation and she began to tear up.“I didn’t expect you to laugh at me, I always thoug...t I was nice looking.”“Good Lord Corrine, I’m laughing at the situation, not you. You’re such a little sweetheart, if I were 15 years younger I would be in line waiting to date you.”“You don’t have to wait, you’re who I want. Don’t turn me down and think I’m silly.”“I don’t think you’re silly at all. You’re a beautiful woman.” I said, adding, “and. I'll have to leave my library to the University of Wisconsin when I die." Is that where you went to school?" Yep." I used to write a little, in college," I told her."No kidding? What did you write?" Essays, mostly. I had a column in the school paper. It was political commentary, mostly. I was the school's bleeding-heart liberal." Amazing! A jock writer! I'da never thunk it." Well, it wasn't exactly Harvard. I went to the University of Miami on a baseball scholarship." Must have been tough duty,. He looked at the clock - seven o'clock. He got out of bed and walked to the bathroom naked. He was surprised when the door was wide open and Jennifer was sitting on the toilet. He started to walk back to the room when Jennifer said, "You can come in if you want. I'll be done in a second."Dave walked into the bathroom but he felt funny standing there while she was using the toilet. He kind of chuckled and Jennifer noticed immediately. She asked, "What?"He replied, "It just seems funny to walk in. Civilization itself was just a veneer, a very thin veneer, he thought as something glimpsed below resembling the coliseum flashed through his mind’s eye. Rome had never fallen, it had simply been subsumed from within, the bureaucracy of empire had transformed itself into a religion and had become an empire anew – Rome had indeed become eternal. Even though the idea was faintly troubling, Wakeman smiled at the thought. There was order in empire, a mild comfort to be had from the stability of.