Scott had been thinking about infantry formations and had discussed two of these with Gabrain previously. He remembered the Greek phalanx and the late... schiltrom as being formations that had had some success. The phalanx was the weaker he thought because it could be relatively easily assaulted from the sides and rear by a more mobile force. Schiltroms on the other hand were regarded as being too static to be used as an attacking force; rather they were a defensive formation, effective against. She plopped herself down into her favourite chair and picked-up where she left off. As the evening wore on the events of what transpired earlier seemed a distant memory, thankfully. When her eyelids grew heavy, she placed her book on the table, got up and went into the bathroom to pee and get ready for bed. Stripping naked, she climbed into bed. Once she was there, she succumbed to the sleep god almost immediately and drifted off. She was startled out of her sleep with what sounded like the. I want to date you miss whoever you are,” he said nodding at Victoria, “and well, I can afford you. Oh, and I’m a good guy,” he said.Victoria Steele snorted. “Not even if you’ve got a billion dollars,” she said.“How about sixteen of those,” he said. Victoria froze, and then caught herself nodding, slowly nodding. This couldn’t be real, but what if it was.“Am I really going to be the owner of this place tomorrow?” butted in Lana.“Yes, you are.” He took out a business card and wrote another. It was a relic, a train from another era, the time when more than half a dozen streamlined night trains went over these very tracks between Harrisburg and Chicago.As quickly as it started, it was gone, the rear marker lights retreating into the horizon. It left the snow covered scene feeling empty and lonely; the Broadway Limited thundered on through the night, an irresistible force that would take an act of god to stop. Trains are nothing if not dramatic.With that, the driver of the car turned.