Stanhope – your husband – was given command of the prize and ordered to carry her across the Atlantic into Portsmouth. A day later, however, we le...rned that the intelligence had been incomplete. We were faced with a French frigate equal to ours as well as a smaller sloop, and would have fallen to them but for the incredible reappearance of the prize, your husband in command, firing its four meager cannons to remarkable effect and ultimately boarding the frigate.’ Sir Edward paused, as if he. As I lay in bed that morning, I thought about what I must do. I must convince Howard that I have given up any idea of an affair. I must make him believe that I am his exclusively and that my request the other night was nothing more than the ravings of a menopausal woman. Surely he could believe that was possible. I had stopped taking hormone replacement therapy after the health scares. Perhaps I could blame it on that.I told Ginny about my confrontation with Howard. She scolded me for being so. And then, when my last class was over I had to wait for my mom to pick me up. I was really starting to feel bad. ‘My birthday and she’s not on time,’ I thought. A car pulled up and honked. I looked up. It took me a couple of seconds to realize it was Corey’s car and that Corey was driving. I ran over to it and opened the door, ‘Corey, what are you doing here?’ ‘Picking you up. Your mom said you needed a ride.’ I got in. ‘Don’t you have classes?’ I asked him. ‘Class,’ he replied, ‘just one, and. A startled look fell across Anna’s face. And then it began to look confused as she tried to make sense of what she’d just heard. She gathered herself to respond, “are you ok, Jerome?”. “Not really” he returned hesitantly, but enticingly. He looked seductively into her green eyes and they started back longingly, but her face remained relatively emotionless. Slowly creaking closer, Jerome’s voice began to soften and quieten to a seductive whisper. “I... ummm... I wondered if you could explain the.