He figured he could make the whole trip in seven or eight hours. He planned to refuel in Bakersfield."How come you don't want to do anything with me? ...on't you think I'm pretty enough?"They'd been driving in near total silence for more than an hour. Ed had gotten himself into the near trance state he liked to be in when driving for any long distance. It made the time and the distance go by more quickly for him. Her speaking to him had disturbed this comfortable state of non-attention."I'm. I had a lecture soon so I hopedthis house meeting wouldn't last long.I walked into the living room and was greeted by the girls. I noticedthat there was a pile of clothes on the sofa, what looked like girl'sclothes, which Alicia was going through. "Good Morning Jane," saidKristi, "with Alicia's help, we want you to try on some outfits for us."I glanced at the clock on the wall and noticed I had an hour till mylecture, I thought I should hopefully have just enough time. "Okay miss,sounds great.". "I see you name your experiments Professor, let me see 'Constance', 'Jane' and 'Daphne'. Why do you choose ladies names?" A mere foible of mine Mr Holmes, they are my children. If we collaborate well you may meet them one day."Holmes fought against the wave of disgust rising in him, he smiled."I would very much like to, at an appropriate time - as you determine, Herr Professor."Burgabiter beamed, and his enlarged ego flew."Then Mr Holmes you shall, but you must understand - sacrifices must be. It would appear that I have somehow developed the ability to converttestosterone into oestrogen. My testicles have also undergone a changewhere they are acting like female ovaries. It would appear that since thefever that I had, my body chemistry has changed. They had never comeacross a case like it before and had no idea how it had happened. Theyhad found changes in my blood and in the microbes in my gut. They hadfound similar changes in Jenny's blood and gut, but the only affect theyseem to.