"It's a glass of goat's milk and a piece of the waitress." He roared with laughter while Enos chuckled. I made no outward display, instead watching ...ur waitress draw the coffee. From the red on her face, I was sure she had heard the joke. Surprisingly, the red looked to be more from anger than embarrassment. This Myra seemed pretty sharp. "She too young for you, Jimmy Ray," Enos mumbled. Yeah, I thought, and way too good for him, too. "If they're old enough to bleed, they're old enough to. " It'll be a good two hours until we come up. Tell the cook I intend to release the starboard watch to eat in half an hour. And tell my own cook that I'll be ready to eat in an hour. Please inform Mr. Carruthers that I would be delighted to have his company." Aye-aye." Matthew Cooper acknowledged the order with a knuckle to his forelock.George Carruthers, a tall, thin civilian with a perpetually saturnine expression on his face, had joined the ship at Gibraltar as an interpreter fluent in. “Oh God Sis, yours too?”“Actually the fresh shaved one is mine; Mom’s pubic hairs were in the box that somehow got dumped on the floor. Remember I told you about Mom getting her brains fucked out. I witnessed it but didn’t tell you about my cleaning up the kitchen with her pubic hairs all over the floor. I put her hairs in a box, teasing her about keeping them as a memento. They were still on the cabinet beside the table and we must have knocked them off so they were all over the floor again.. Then she tells me all else that is agreed. I can only shake my head in wonder that Irving will give so much.“Without you I receive none of this,” I say. “I should know this when Irving first speaks, I know one does not ever accept first...” I cannot think of right word.“First offer,” she helps me.“Offer, yes. Always make better offer in return, is right way of bargaining. But in this place I do not know what may be bargained. In store you do not bargain for things, and I think at first this is.