" And you accepted?" Maria asked, smiling broadly; her metal helmetcovered her soft blond hair."Of course I'll accept. I love her! I'll call her after...this mission, ifI can get permission to use the phone. Jesus, Maria, this is just so, sogreat!" Well, congratulations, soldier," Maria said warmly. She reached overand gently touched my hand with hers. "You'll come to the wedding, won't you? It'll be in South Texas. I'llget you a plane ticket. Please? You can be my bridesmaid..., I mean, mybest. You just have to push the top tip of the escalator well to the 3-D coordinates of the top of the tower, to make the connection." So we're still only 200 miles from Earth?" Sort of. 200 miles distant from Earth, 200 miles from our entire universe... Or maybe not, I don't know... The technology to do this seems like complete magic to me..." Matt, what's a tesseract like?" Think first of a square and a cube. A square has four one-dimensional surfaces, lines, at its boundaries. If you move along. ” “Happy to oblige mam I am sure!” And screw we did, the kitchen on the table, in the living room; and finally in the bathroom shower, before finishing with a flourish on their big double bed. Tim as he had promised returned, just in time for tea, and I had to round up Shagger who was still at it by now in the girl`s roomThey said they had been ‘playing chess’ and had not noticed the time...(note to self: must learn that version of chess if that`s what they were doing cos the one I learnt at. It is a two-hour drive so I arrived well before Kathy was out of school. After getting some lunch and settling in, I decided to take a shower before Kathy showed up. The shower was great and relaxing but I had a very odd sensation that I was being watched. When I got out I noticed that somehow I had failed to lock the bathroom door believing that no one else would be home. While toweling off I thought that I heard the door to Kathy's room close. I guess it was a little later than I thought.