He wouldn't be interested in me." He is, Mum. He asked me to fix something so that he could meet you. Would you catch a bus into town next Friday and ...e'll meet you?" I'm not sure I could do that. I've got to have supper ready for your dad when he comes in." He doesn't come home till after nine." Sometimes he comes home early." How often?" Not very." Well then." If he does and I'm not here he'll smack me around." Mum, we'll come here if you'd rather but someone's bound to see us and gossip then. I was a bit startled at the seeming contradiction. "Your job," he paused and waved at a chair. "Fuck's sake, sit. You're makin' the place look untidy." He waited until I'd sat in the indicated chair, and then continued. "Your job, Major, is to interdict, disrupt, and generally make life a nuisance for any and all Earth Firsters. Particularly those that are goin' to make trouble for the Confederacy. Understand?" Er. I think so, sir." I wasn't sure I totally understood, but I was damned sure I. " I will," Nick replied. "That will make Harry jealous for sure." I'll make up for it," Jayne said softly as they kissed and made love late into the night. At three, they slept for five hours until eight. Checkout time at ten, good to avoid the peak hour out of Liverpool and head south. Eight until ten gave them time for one last shower-based moment. Freshening up, they knew they would have to keep hands off each other for a few hours until they got to Birmingham. A brief kiss here or there at. He could easily suffer the same fate as the Ambassador, or worse, he could be turned out into thin air at thirty-eight thousand feet, rather than merely finding himself penniless and stateless on the streets of London."Master," he said, "I admit my fault in this matter. I will appoint an older man who is a traditionalist to London, and I will inspect all the other Embassies personally." Correction," said the Emir, "I will appoint my Ambassador to London as the Emir has always done. You have.