The more time she had spent living in the house and thinking of it as hers, the more she wanted to make ownership of it a reality. She was also buying...most of the furnishings with the house so she was getting a fully furnished place. That wasn’t as great of a deal as it might have sounded since most of the furniture was 30 years old and pretty worn. Still, she was going to have her own place and it would be furnished.Sandra, on the other hand, didn’t understand why getting his own place was. I took time to really look at her with a critical eye. I have found that women, even in this highly enlightened era we now live, still fall back on those old tricks to keep males off balance. I called it ‘gender blackmail,’ a practice that fell out of practice in the mid twenty-second and faded from use through the twenty-fifth. Now, like most societal trends it appeared to be making a comeback. ‘Okay. Now, I have a question for you: Why are you so tense around Allan and Mac but not Needles? I. We knew we could turn landsmen into seamen, and we’d established that we could turn seamen into officers. And all my officers knew how to do both. The only problems left were getting more men, getting more ships, and getting more experience. None of those problems were insurmountable.All those fishermen weren’t fishing because there was a fish shortage. I expected that many of them, maybe even most of them, were fishing because they were hungry and didn’t know how to do anything else. I needed. " Yeah, okay. Tonight it is." Why don't you show me one of those houses with a big bed in it." Sure," he smiled, "I can arrange that. I know just the house." He quickly wrote the address on a slip of paper and gave it to her. "A couple are summering in Vermont and want to rent it furnished while they're gone." Shall we say about eight?" Eight it is... Viv."She gave him her come on smile once again."I promise to give you a night you won't forget." I'm looking forward to it," he grinned as she.