“My lady,” he says with a slight bow, “my drab little space is so much brighter since you’ve chosen to grace it with your beauty.”It’s som... of the most mawkishly insipid phrasing that I could have imagined, but coming in that voice, from that face, with those bright-dark eyes fixed upon me, it works. My face burns, and my groin gushes. I can feel the moisture spreading into the crotch of my romper, and I suddenly feel genuinely shy. That is not who I am! Henri sees. He knows exactly how. She stood up, smiling devilishly. "I had no idea my man was so shy! We may have to do something about that..." Kaija refused to believe he could resist her charms twice in a row. But then again, she found him in her dorm room with Ally--the newly reinvented Ally. What was all that about, she wondered. Forever the optimist, she decided that maybe Barc had come to surprise her, and he and Ally were just chatting to pass the time. Kaija clung to that thought. While she wanted nothing serious from. I will no longer treat you as just my son. I will treat you as my daughter as well."(What? Now I was very surprised hearing that! How could she really treat me like her daughter? No way. She must mean within reason or with some limitations. I have seen what mothers do with their daughters. I have an idea of what private things they share with each other. I could just imagine what questions a daughter might ask and the answers a mother might give them. No, I think I know what she means.)"I. When I wassure he was awake I started to go back to the radio and passed the radarscreen and stopped, I thought I had seen something and waited for it tosweep the north sector and saw two blips one larger than the other."Will, come here there's a radar contact close to us."He was there in an instant and watched, then reached out and switched theset to close range and watched again bending closer to the screen. "Yes,two contacts and the smaller is about the size of a lifeboat, the largerabout.