It was Ben Dunn from the college. He was accompanied by his former girlfriend, whom I now remembered was named Tiffi (where do parents get these names...), and a rather pneumatic blonde. I waved and caught his eye. He saw me and nodded, a bit regally, I thought.Tiffi turned to see who Ben was nodding to and I saw that she sported a spectacular black eye. Hmmm. No law against hitting concubines. No sir. From what I gathered, there was no law against beating the living daylights out of them and. By his return the casualty, had shed her baggy wind-proofs and was now stripped to jeans and a tight white tea-shirt stretched over a shapely body. At the croft he made tea for them all and after her boot had been gently removed and the foot evaluated as a sprain a cold compress was applied. They introduced themselves as Mary, the injured blonde, and Sadie the brunette, they were from Manchester and they were students on a couple of week`s hiking break. It was four days in and they had been. Bell. Let’s not break them right at the beginning. If they learn their duties they may grow into being real midshipmen.”“Indeed, Sir. I shall watch them closely.”“Well, I better not keep you longer, Mr. Bell. I shall have dinner guests in my cabin and I ask you to watch over things tonight.”Bell rose. “Aye-aye, Sir! I shall look after things and get current with all matters.”This time, Thomas had his father greeted by four side boys and the boatswain’s pipes as befitted his rank, and Theodore. I agreed but it was only us and we didn't jump so much as move quickly toward what we realized we both wanted.She agreed.We concentrated upon preparing to be parents and farming our little truck garden. I guess little is a questionable term since we had about five acres planted. We found that we could spend as much time as we wanted working on that area. We tried to hold it to two or three days a week.We still wanted to develop some friendships but, for right now, we had no ideas about how to.