‘Ladies,’ the Sheikh said: ‘I want some time alone here with my wife. Please leave the baths for now.’ With a lot of surprised glances the gi...ls ran off giggling but Azziza stayed put. ‘Wife my Lord?’ ‘Yes my wife. I just made her queen-consort.’ Tears appeared in the old lady’s eyes and she hugged the foreign woman and kissed her again. Then in a sudden break with decorum ran her hands up the Sheikh’s face to get his head down and kissed him too. ‘Well done my lord. This one is someone to. Do you remember what you said? He looked at you as if he wanted to kill you, then ran out of the house and was gone nearly a week. When he came back, he had the weather job and we moved. Do you remember what you said? He never told me.’ ‘I told him ‘don’t hit her for your mistakes.” Sue nodded, her brow knitted in thought. ‘When we started dating, I thought he was the coolest guy, cute, smart, charming. I decided on our second date that he’d be my first lover. He, apparently, was attracted by. An iceberg fitted out with triple 2,500 horsepower Liberty Ship engines. A fighting and freight-carrying iceberg. Her crew called her the Ice Maiden.Tromsö lay ahead, about 150 miles to starboard. It was March of 1944, and there were a thousand newly-built up-gunned Sherman "Firefly" tanks and 600 Lend-Lease P-40 fighters aboard -- destined for Stalin's armies, by way of Murmansk. The weather forecast called for blustery winds, with a possibility of heavy snow later in the evening. It was. . right, Mark? You agree that I'm hot?"A long, raucous laugh broke from her limply working red lips as she looked at her husband viciously. "I knew, I knew, I knew," she chanted, as if to torture him by letting him see her bawdy drunkenness. "Stuart told me all about it... the pictures... the photography lesson... I'm not shtupid, you know, Mark. I knew about what you were doing..."The handsome young husband could only stare incredulously at this woman who was supposed to be his wife. From what.