He did it because he actually enjoyed inflicting pain on her, maybe even as much as she enjoyed receiving it. Not to the degree of a sadist, but causi...g her pain made him feel better. After all this was a white woman, married to a white man and it was the white man that he felt kept him in such a menial job and didn't let him move up in the world. It was misguided thinking... the reality of it was that Rodney was sleeping in a bed of his own making. But it made him feel better to strike a blow. When he didn't have the duty, McCock, as an Ensign was required to undertake his rostered share of OW duties, increasingly took himself off on week ends to the marina to sail his sloop about the near coast. The habit got formed to take the Crypt as his crew. There was no shortage of company at the sailing club and the Crypt liked the relaxation in the bar and dining room. The Navy would have frowned upon the fraternization and the Membership would have been dropping black balls all over the. I would have been pleased - but it hadbeen delivered for me, not for her, and I stamped my foot in a huff."I am NOT wearing make-up!" I cried, crossing my arms. "Is thateverything in that box?!" I despaired."Yeah." Holly nodded, still a little transfixed by the portable make-uppalace she'd unearthed."Good," I said, kneeling down to cut open the last box, eager to get thisfinished. I folded back the cardboard flaps, grabbed the familiar sheetof A4 and read that this box contained 'Toys'. Great.. We felt that streets any narrower would be a problem later on. The only solution appeared to be enlarging at least one of the smaller side-chambers.Everybody was given a chance to try out our guest room, and everybody agreed that they wanted a similar house for their own use. We decided to construct three more houses identical to the first one in the main chamber and two more similar houses in one of the side-chambers. We did decide to save ourselves some work by sticking to the canvas roofs..