I waited outside the house that night, and checked my watch. Two o’clock in the morning. Both of them had to be sleeping by then. I made my way to o...r front door, dressed in my black fatigues and carrying my duffel bag. I jimmied the lock and made my way inside. Employing my training in stealth, I swiftly moved up the stairs and knelt outside the bedroom door. I reached into the duffel bag and produced a canister of ether that I had purloined from the medical supply closet at the base many. She hadn’t said a word to me since I had left the showers, staring down at the rusty-red changing room tiles, her eyes only occasionally raising to look at me. It was painful to watch, and it was plainly obvious to me why she was here; why else would she be alone with a half-naked pupil, in the boys’ changing rooms, after school? Maybe I was wrong. Maybe there was an innocent explanation. But I doubted it.The thought crossed my mind to put her out of her misery, and just drop the towel and show. She took the dog and said Gracias! and walked back home. When Lettie got back to her door it was locked. I was still standing outside watching her wiggle the door knob and hold the dog. She put the dog down and tried the window and the poodle ran back over to my yard. Lettie walked back over. She said I no get it. Meaning she was locked out. I opened my door and said come in. Barefoot holding the poodle Lettie walked in the house. I told her it was ok to put the dog down on the. I suspected, at the time, that her weight and her work load kept her from actively dating as well. Things started out in a simple way. She was better at math than I was. I was having trouble with tensor analysis and she was having trouble with non-linear electromagnetic theory. As a result we started to study together two or three times a week. The more we got to know each other the more we found out that we liked each other. I found that I could communicate with her on a personal level as.