"Ted... ?"I'd heard that tone before from Grace. It's been described as the 'three-note interrogative'."Yes, love?" I think I kept the resignation out...of my voice. I couldn't think of anything she would ask that would be anything that would really bother me. Or so I thought."Could you sleep with another woman and still love me?"Was this a trick question? One that had no right answer? 'Does my bum look big in this?'"Grace, I can't think of anything that would stop me loving you. I ... you know. I finally asked her if she intended to be mad at me forever."Yup," was her answer.The ultra light had come to a stop near Midnight's trailer, around mid-morning. We'd had to dodge around the cables that were Midnight's life line. Neither he nor Ramon were in residence, at the moment. Ramon was at one of the clinics, or the hospital, most likely. Midnight was at 'the site.' It was the new underground computer facility, where Io was going to sit and rule the world from an unused salt mine.We. You'd think I'd be able to justtalk this out with her, my wife, even if I couldn't with others. Still Ifelt this was the best approach. I'd given it to her, told her to readit, think about it, and then we could meet, when she was ready to talkabout my offer. She'd finally set up a time, her schedule was quite busyduring the day, when we could really talk about it without our daughtershere or being interrupted by work.For me, work wasn't an issue any more, unfortunately. I'd been employedat the. We gloss over those details.) Mind you, we’ve never been movers and shakers, and I don’t think anybody got much higher than a sergeant or lieutenant, but we always served.We had a wall in the family room with photos of family members in uniform that I can remember from when I was little; my mother laughingly called it the ‘Wall of Heroes.’ There’s a photo of my grandfather (Dad’s dad, who I’m named after) in his army uniform from World War I, complete to campaign hat and puttees. There were.