I try to speak but my mouth gets filled with soft slender fingers… What are you doing? I ask once they are removed I reach over to the blindfold th...t rests over the back of the bed, purposely ignoring his question, Are you comfortable? I ask, his head spins towards me just as I pull the blindfold over his eyes, I wriggle hard, its you! Oh my god Debbie? Are you ok? Did they hurt you? I say just as something slips over my eyes but not before I get a glimpse of her standing at the head of the. " D'you hear there, d' you hear there, all hands, stations for entering harbour." Captain on the bridge." Ma'am, ship manned for entering harbour, all power boards in the green, Cox'n (PO2 Janice Dawson) on the helm, Bosun (CPO Dorothy Ember) has the berthing party, engine room answering bells (engines responding to the seats' throttle) and Control has given clearance" Very good, Mr Windsor; my ship." Your ship; aye, Ma'am."Clare settled into the command chair....One airbridge had been placed. ‘I don’t have one,’ I replied, taking the coffee and blowing across it. ‘You can set that there,’ I directed him, pointing to a side table pushed next to the couch. He did, and then pulled a stool across from me and sat down. ‘You’re not going to eat?’ I asked him, wondering why he was gazing at me in that funny way. ‘I don’t like breakfast.’ ‘Oh yeah, I keep forgetting. I’ve got some other stuff if your hungry,’ I said, trying to be hospitable. ‘I can’t eat this early in the morning anyway.. Harry broke down. Ginny had not seen him crying like that since that day, three weeks after the end of the war, when he had finally broken and cried for all those they had lost. Ever since, he had always been collected, calm and, well, reassuringly strong, really. Now, he was just pathetic. It hurt her to see him like that. Sobbing. Pleading. Hating himself. ‘I know I shouldn’t want this, and I don’t! But it’s – it’s just … I am weak. I’ve done this only four times since we got married, Gin..