Touch the top button and a hologram will present the agenda and the program for the day.”“I would propose first that we permit Gen. Grommet Rickel... from Empire intelligence, to present the intelligence findings from the combined group who have been assembling information from the captured enemy, the analysis of the weapons of the enemy, the effectiveness of weapons and shields with respect to each of our fleets and also the information that we have gleaned from previous encounters. Intelligence. He knew not what to do or say, the whole engagement had been somewhat of a shock, his regular visits to the vicarage had perforce been curtailed by her courtship with Mr Countisbury, and indeed he knew he would miss her as he would a sister, and the thought she was to marry disturbed him deeply. Indeed, he said, Until the morrow then, good day, he said and wheeled his horse again and rode home, his thoughts greatly troubled. He helped stable his steed, washed the dust of the road from his face. The other guys quickly noticed I couldn’t do a damn thing right, and they got a good laugh out of it, saying I’d obviously had far too good a weekend.Despite my paranoid fears, there was nobody waiting in ambush when I got back to the cabin that evening. I spent a couple of hours removing what other evidence I could of my captive and the makeshift cell (a bit of wood filler and a lick of paint covered up where the spyhole had been in the door, and the drywall she’d excavated got the same. I was sorry for this. What had been pastime to me was going to be misery to her. I had to show her the impossibility of my keeping her; then she said she would drown herself. Altogether it was not a very comfortable meeting apart from the fucking, which was as good as usual I dare say, though I don’t recollect much about it.Fred went backwards and forwards to London, I did occasionally, but not on his days, for he was in my way. I did not tell him now much about my little games, and got most of.