"I could feel my resolve slipping. "I suppose he'd find out sooner orlater anyway ..." Uh-huh ... but that's not the point, honey. You've already dugy...urself a hole an' buried yourself up to your neck in it, but you'renot in over your head - yet. You can still rescue yourself, an' yourrelationship with Rob." But suppose he freaks out and drops me like a hot potato?" Well honey, ah think y'all know how to pull this off. An' if the mancan't handle the truth ... well, here's what ah believe - he. Ken assured them that things could go a little faster, but that there’d be more ‘dual time’ with him as the instructor. He also suggested more night hours for each of them.Ken then had an idea. “Of course, if you want to accelerate your instrument rating, you could go off and take a condensed course at one of the major flight schools. I know it’ll help a huge amount if you’ve taken the written test before you start the flight training.”“Where would you go?”“There are multiple places in just. The red-and-black stack of the Katoomba was readily visible.“Permission to come aboard!”“Come ahead; there ain’t no guard set.”“Are you an ABS?”“Nah, just a stoker come to see what the light’s like.”“Any officers about?”“Cap’n wuz up’n the bridge ‘while back.”“Can I go up there?”“Why not?”So Andy went to the companionway and again called for permission.“Come ahead!” came the response. And so he met Captain E.L.D. Moodie-Heddie, who’d conned the Katoomba for the past decade. The Captain was very. Go ahead a check the menu, and order anything you like,” he said. A waitress arrived and took our orders. I ordered the roast beef blue plate special, and Roger ordered coffee. “Tommy how do you find yourself cold and hungry,” Roger asked? I poured out my story, thanked him for his generosity, and said, “I don’t know how I could ever repay him.” “Don’t worry about that,” he said as my food arrived. “Eat and enjoy.” Things got quiet, and I attacked the food. I was so hungry that I definitely was.