Thank you. I wanted to please you.”“Wait!” Dave said in realization. “How many extra hours did you put in to do this?”Nancy suddenly looked ...hagrined and blushed. She answered in a near whisper; “I did a double shift all week. I did my work and yours.”Dave shook his head. “DAMN! You didn’t have to do that. All you had to do was put out the fires. I want you to take comp time for what you did. What possessed you to think you had to do that?”Still looking contrite she said, “I didn’t think I had. He looked around the room, expecting to see everyone laughing, then turned back to me.“It wasn’t exactly an accident that I sat here today. I mean I wanted to ask you something and so I kind of set this up.” I could see the look in his eyes that said, “here it comes.”I continued. “I suck at chemistry. I mean I really suck at it and I was kind of wondering if you would maybe want to help me with it? You know, like tutor me.” I could almost hear the air come out of him.“That’s it?” he said.. I didn't mind at all but I needed some clean clothes. I told her. She dropped me off and sped to the office in her Daddy's BMW.I quickly did about six loads of laundry, as I had to get them all done before noon. I managed it, pulling out the last load from the drier about five minutes before she was supposed to be there. Carting the heavy baskets up the five flights from the laundry room in the basement was a chore, and I saw her standing in the hallway waiting for me. I was glad I had left a. I can never sleep in an airplane, those creaking and shaking sardine tins high over the clouds. But I like to pretend! I rumage noisily through my bag, find some vitamin tablets and swallow them with a gulp of mineral water. »Extra strong sleeping tablets«, I tell my neighbour, »so I can sleep through the night!« He just nods and rustles with his huge news paper. I put on my sleeping mask, let the back of my seat down and pull the woollen blanket up to my waist. I open two buttons in the front.