As I waited for the next step, my eyes went to the large monitor on my right.And there she was, Abigail! Standing as required, and dressed in a simple...burqa that was pulled back and tied to the back of her left leg to show her cast. There was also the required marriage hood above the burqa, preventing her from seeing anything.I hadn't seen Abigail since we left the vault at Qataban. She didn't even know for sure whom she was marrying, though I was hoping she could guess. My heart was singing. .. "Greg?" She looked up at him from across the table where they were enjoying a breakfast of pan-fried fish fresh-caught just that morning.'Yes?" He looked back at her, smiling, but seeing a trace of worry in her blue eyes."What if my... my old master comes looking for me?" We'l1 handle that problem when and if it arrives, but I don't think there's much danger of that happening." All right." Betty looked back down at her plate for a moment, but didn't resume eating. "But what if he does?". On the day before I departed back to Earth Signifier Tess and Operations Officer Popov led me back to the orphanage to say goodbye to everybody. First thing was Mary Popov removing my kynodesme--that string thing holding up my penis. Or perhaps that was thing string? I expected that I'd be the only naked human in the place. Only Tess and Mary wore anything--everybody else, concubines and children, were naked. One by one I hugged each orphan and each unattached concubine. Then I was in the. ” From her face, this was a joke. “However, Aldersgate is likelier.”“Aldersgate?” If that was what he thought she meant, his whole day had changed. “In Evanston?”“In Evanston. The one in London is taken.”“Darling. You’re so kind to me.” And she was. He’d been worrying about himself; both his worry about the book and the book itself had been self-indulgent. And she’d been worrying about providing him with an easy commute. Commute? Hell! Aldersgate UMC was an easy walk from his office on campus..