My guilt had to be evident in my eyes. "Listen, Peg," she said firmly. "Everything's going to be just fine. Don't worry about a thing. We are all behi...d you, one hundred percent. Trust me - we've all been through this, just like you."I seriously doubted that."It's going to be a busy day," she continued blithely. Taking the blender from my hand, she said, "I'll finish this. You go upstairs and take a few minutes to get yourself composed. Lie down if you need to. Maybe a shower would help," she. I stood from his lap, took his glass and placed both of them in the wet bar sink. Ships have a tendency to rock and roll at sea and things left on flat surfaces have an equal tendency to slid off eventually.The balcony seemed secure so we left the dogs there with a bowl of water and the sliding door open for them. We return to the casino area for the social time as the ship headed into open water. Introductions of the crew were made with polite applause. Then some general housekeeping,. “Sweetie, I’ll tell you about that later, OK. It’s something that I don’t like to let other people know about,” I told her.“OK, Bill. As long as you’re all right,” she said, happily.I transferred all of my gear from Ed’s truck to my truck. We put the mortar and everything in the demo sack in the garage. We checked the trucks to be sure they were both locked and went into the house before someone could see us and wonder what we were doing out there at 3:30 in the morning.We had a few beers to. Sometimes she would even give out a smile as she passed by me. But I didn’t have the courage to go talk to her face to face.One day I decided to follow her cab to see who else works in her office. One of the guys in the next street did. He used to come to the corner shop to smoke and I made friends with him. After a couple of weeks, we became close and used to discuss girls and random things that every bachelor does.Then I started asking him about Sumaiya as they both went in the same cab. He.