Will you go with me on my first few trips?"Talk about ego massage! This was just the sort of thing I ate up. Here I was, the big, strong, macho man go...ng along to protect the fragile woman who was begging for my protection. There was no way I could have refused Brenda's request, even if I had wanted to. So I asked, "Have you decided where you would like to visit first?" I am interested in medicine, so I would like to visit ancient Greece and see Hippocrates in action. He lived around 400 BC,. I became more and more convinced that Margaret had arranged the fatal mismatch as some kind of final revenge on us for daring to defy and reject her. She'd waited to take her vengeance, until I'd put her out of my mind behind more important issues, and then she'd struck, as viciously as she used to with the tawse, choosing the moment and the place when it hurt most.Suspicion bored into my mind like a flesh-eating bug, consumed me more and more, keeping me from my work. I desperately needed. Trying to hold in sobs that fought their way out in shuddering gasps, forcing their way through clenched teeth. Eyes closed and leaking tears.I stopped a few feet away and knelt.“Jenny.” Softly. As softly as I could speak.Her eyes shot open and she looked wildly around, then riveted on me kneeling in front of her.“Whatever it is, whatever happened ... Jenny, I’m not it.”I held the ribbon up.“It’s just a ribbon, and I can’t use it, but you can.”Her eyes tracked the ribbon like it was a. "Don't worry, he won't be coming around. Actually we have kind of an understanding." I don't think I get your meaning." I was puzzled."We don't ask and we don't tell."Something clicked in my brain as she licked her lips and popped the button of her tight shorts. Slowing she inched them down her long sexy legs until they cleared her feet and she tossed them aside."Uh, I understand don't ask, don't tell but what are you doing?" I've fixed your Polish and was about to give it to you," she replied.