.”I listened to him with only half my attention. He offered me his deepest condolences on my, our, loss. It sounded strictly pro forma, but I apprec...ated it nonetheless. I smiled at my wife and sat down heavily in my office chair. I picked up my pen, flipped the page on the notepad, and began writing as he talked.It was going to be a long couple of days, and I couldn’t imagine how we were going to tell the girls. With an inaudible sigh, I concentrated on the lawyer and blew a kiss to my wife.. " Of course I'm serious about helping her, I wouldn't be doing any of this if..." If you didn't love her, I understand that, Jimmy, but she's hurt, and scared, she needs to see it, she wants to see it every time she looks at you, hear it in every word you speak to her, she needs to know that you are there for her, but at the same time you can't make it too easy for her. You have to make her work for it, earn it, or it won't mean anything. She won't be confident enough to pull it off if it's too. Of course, we had already reported our find to the other air ships and to home base, so there was a lot of joy floating around the whole human population of New Earth.Oh, by the way, we had found the small stream flowing from the monster lake into the beginning of the mighty Mississippi River.There was no way we were going to be able to transport the iron by water. The usual thing to do would have been to barge the iron to our home down the Mississippi River. Unfortunately, that narrowing of. “Let him go on for a while,” she said. “Whenhe’s had a chance to let off some steam, I’ll tell youwhat to do.” She bounced a couple of times on Wendell,and he had to stop to catch his breath, but then hebegan screaming again.After a while, his voice got hoarse, but he didn’t giveup until his yelling was barely above a whisper. Joansat quietly on him, bouncing a couple of times every fewminutes and smiling at Wendell.“I think we’re.