.. right. I mean, okay. Yes, I’ll work. I did give an estimated timeline, after all, and it doesn’t look good if I’m nowhere close to it.” Sig...... “Well, good. Unfortunately, it gets worse ... and I hope you’re ready for this, because I’m sure not. Sunday night, you’re invited to dinner.”No. “I ... but...”“No buts. If you’re struggling — and I know you are — just think about how hard it will be for me. But you have to do this. I know it, and so do you. It’s part of the price, or the penance, or. ’ ‘Wow!’ ….They were almost late again. — The next day, they talked about music, and discovered that their tastes matched there, too, the next day, it was movies. The next, books, and then TV shows. They both confessed to being Star Trek freaks. That was a Friday, and they had had breakfast together every day for a week. ‘Have you seen the new Star Trek movie?’ he asked as they finished their Egg McMuffins. Beth shook her head. ‘No,’ she said, ‘But I’ve heard it’s really good.’ ‘Would. "Anything I can do?" I asked Alan Drew. "You're needed everywhere, Major Breen," came his slow, heavy reply. "I'll take care of -- of Dr. Lowry. -- But if you could, sir --" "Yes?" "I don't know the sergeant's friends and we're going to need to find a suicide-watcher for him -- for her, I mean." I nodded sympathetically and looked at Sgt. Gold on the other cot. I recalled that it had been the sergeant who had said something about sleeping beauties. But my concern for Gold had to take. So I did let him in, and we sat here on the sofa and talked."He was really very nice about it, and said he knew things had gotten out of hand, and there really wasn't any excuse for it. And then he said something about surely I must know how it is when a bunch of guys get together without their wives around, and that having such a ... such an attractive woman there just made them forget all their manners." It sounds like you were having a nice conversation, but what happened?" I'm getting to.