I smiled my thanks and drank. After a moment, I pointed to my chest and said, "My name is Tom. Your name?" I pointed at her.She said, "Elena."I smiled...and said, "It's good to meet you, Elena." She looked at me baffled but smiled back. She had a pretty smile."I am from Atlanta, Georgia, USA."She looked baffled. That worried me as the USA was very well known in the world even if Atlanta might not. "USA is United States of America."She still looked baffled, "America?"Uh-oh. That was not good. She. "Oh, okay. Well, you're welcome. It's nothing that any white knight in hero's armour wouldn't have done," I said, making light of the situation."You saved my life, mister. I won't forget it." I was thinking that a date with her would have been reward enough, but I squelched the thought. She was a rape victim."Really, think nothing of it. I was there and I was lucky," I said."I was the one that was lucky," she said. "I owe you a dinner at the very least," she said. "Please, when they let you go. Today I will tell you exactly what is going to happen to trade between Kobekistan and the USA, and you will just listen. In any case, your so called advisors are simply your Secret Service bodyguards. Do you really think there is the slightest danger that I would molest the Ambassador of the USA during an official visit? Or that your bodyguards could protect you if I wanted you eliminated in my own palace?"He looked at her for an answer, and she dropped her eyes in tacit admission that this was. Your wife…Maria. She willhave to come here to live. You may put it about that she has come to work asmy maid." "My wife? Are you mad? Impossible." "Very well then. I believe we are finished here." "Wait. Be reasonable. Maria would make a terrible maid for you any way. Shehas never worked with her hands. Also there would be talk. A married womancoming into a single man's home …even be it the home of a…well,they would still think the worst." "You were about to say 'even be it the home of an.