If you can. Soon" Yes. Yes... we will be there as soon as we can. Thank you, Sister."Sally took a deep breath; she had been dreading that phone call.S...e hurried to her mother who was already dressing."Mummy, it was..." Yes, yes dear, I know who it was. I must go to him."Sally's eyes prickled with tears as she saw her mother dressing in her best dress, applying a little powder to her cheeks from her old and treasured compact, a brush of pale lipstick, a hint of her father's favourite perfume to. "Not bad. Simple but functional." Of course the big question," Campbell continued, "has been how could such an oversight have occurred? How could two complete armies have been allowed to deploy for combat operations with insufficient ammunition and breathing air? Well, over the past twenty-four hours we have been starting to get some possible answers to that question."General Douglas Wrath, who, as you are all aware, has been deemed largely to blame for the training and maintenance debacles. "I guess I can understand that," he replied. I doubted he really understood that: at his age, nothing was more important than fucking, I was sure. But at least he was being polite, and maybe he did understand what it was like for an older man."So ... I convinced your mother that she could repay me by maybe modeling sexy clothing, or even special outfits she or I could invent. You know, maybe a really thin nightgown, something we make up from plastic wrap, or masking tape, a G-string and. ", He says in his raspy voice. Immediately I was conflicted. I had arrived mentally dreading to teach and a reluctant student. I hate it when he does this and it was also at that very moment I realised he does this quite a lot. Fool around like he doesn't care about anything and just as you are about to completely strike him off as unreliable and irresponsible , he turns into the most dependable man I know and fixes the situation. Granted most of the “Fixes” are usually caused by his.