I’m spreading my legs for that!” Of course everybody would chime in on that, and Ingrid would sit silently blushing in a corner. One night all oth...r girls were off to parties and boyfriends and it was just Ingrid and me in the house. I entered the common room in my bathrobe, coming from the shower, and found Ingrid reading a book in her baby doll. She looked a bit worried so I asked if something was bothering her. She looked at me a bit shy, gathered her courage and asked: “Maxine, do you think. A cute couple." Yeah," Jock agreed. "And I picked up the suitcase at the station. This girl certainly doesn't go in for wild lace panties or anything like that. Stella said she had never seen such a prim and proper assortment of clothes. Not to say downright drab. You sure we got the right bird, Axel? There weren't even any cosmetics in the suitcase, except a deodorant." Vaginal?" Axel inquired blandly."No, not vaginal, dammit," Jock snorted. "What are you, a dirty old man or something?"Axel. Nicola, her wrists still cuffed behind her stood silently at Horatia's side giving no indication of her feelings about the excursion."I believe Mr James found it most helpful," Horatia responded. "The more so since there were two of us to attend to his needs. I called your student 'Paidia'. It seemed to amuse him."My opinion of Meriel James rose. I had thought him simply a man of numbers but, in recognising Paidia from Greek mythology as one of the handmaidens of Aphrodite, he had shown a. "Whitherr we did or no', rrese' th' compensa'orrs t'norrmal. We'rre no' accelerra'in' mair."Cromartie complied, and they both immediately felt a vast sense of relief as the added gravitational pressure vanished. "What the hell happened, Mac?" he asked as he finished."I don' know," answered the captain. "Th'shiel' didna worrk. Th' compu'err said i' woul', I though' i' woul', bu' th' rradiation was climbin' like therre was naethin' a' all betwix' us an' th' nova. Perrhaps I did no' plo' th'.