---Matthew stayed awake late reading. Jamie had been asleep for a coupleof hours; her light breathing was the only sound in the room. Matthewput his b...ok on the nightstand and dimmed the light. He rose from thebed and looked over to her sleeping form. She looked like an angel tohim sleeping there, and he was inspired to do something for her.He kneeled down beside where she lay and cooed her name. Blurry-eyedshe awoke and smiled at him. He lifted her gently, freeing her from theblankets and lay. " And to have a nice meal, and perhaps a little wine?" he asked, with knowingly raised eyebrows."Well, it seemed only fair to cook him a meal, after all!" replied Elizabeth.Stan smiled. It seemed that Elizabeth and James were seeing a lot of each other lately. He knew that Elizabeth had, herself, been lonely. She'd told him once or twice, long ago, how empty the house felt now the children had grown up. Stan hoped that James would be capable of filling that emptiness for his friend.Later that. "Tell me, that question that General Alders said, why IS it that neither Whitefeather nor that other Captain have been drummed out? What saves them?" Besides me, you mean?" Colonel Theberge asked, his voice betraying a slight French accent, a grin on his face."Frankly, yes. If I were to try those same stunts, I'm likely to get drummed out of the Air Force." If I may, gentlemen?" Colonel Kimball asked. When both nodded, he turned to the major. "Every military unit around the world is. "Sally must not see you leaving my house, so we have to be careful," said Jason, who was also now getting dressed."Yeah, it would be useful if she was in the back garden when I went out your front door," said Janice.Jason and Janice were now downstairs in his house and luck was with them as they looked out of his patio door and Sally was in her back garden, "I will go and speak to her and make sure she stays there while you go out the front," said Jason.The couple had one more long and.