She was curvy, had a beautiful smile, and dancing eyes.“Hey man, how are ya,” said the loud husband, “I’m Barry and this is my ole lady Heathe....”“Hi Barry, I’m John,” I said as I stood to shake his hand, “I can’t agree with you about old, but I would say my lovely wife if I were you,” I remarked as I shook Heather’s hand with a smile on my face.“Ya here for work,” he asked as he pointed to my laptop then sat down, “or pleasure?”“I am on vacation,” I replied, “I like to write and thought I. ”I smiled at her. “I’m thinking along that line. I don’t want a high-powered performance car but a comfortable car and it will probably be a convertible. There is a certain young lady who I would like to have ride around in one.” I smiled a bit more. “Perhaps to a beach where she might wear a thong?”“Anything’s possible, just like winning the lottery.”I said quietly and hopefully, ‘I’ve won the lottery.”I left that hanging for her. She didn’t bite nor shy away. I thought that promising.We had. "During the journey Lady Johnson was interested to find that she felt set free, as though she were no longer a prisoner, but had at least the illusion of travelling of her own volition for a couple of days in London. She looked out of the window at the countryside and the clouds of steam racing past the window until they reached Reading, after which it was mostly buildings. She could see that work had already started in repairing the bomb damage, at least the demolition of irreparably damaged. Sally finally quit crying and just hugged me. As I opened my mouth, she began to speak."Dad, I love you so much. I wanted this to be our special time together with all of us getting to know each other better, but I think I made a horrible mistake. I have been training with the men, and I might have hurt one of them badly yesterday in training. It was an accident, I swear, but I feel so guilty about what I did to him. He has been so nice to us all. The Corporal told me this morning he had to be.