" I heard her snicker. "Come on," she said. "We'll use the guest room tonight. He can find us in the morning and cry in his wimpy-assed beer." "He m...ght object to us going that far," he said. "I mean us doing it here. We should just stick to the plan of having you introduce me." "He might, but you're six-five and he's five-six. I don't see it as an insoluble problem," she said. "Look, what you say may be true, but fighting him . . ." "Yes, yes, I know. I was just kidding. If he cries, I'll. When we went home later that night, Terry crashed without even kissing me good night. It was beginning to seem like our marriage was not all that loving, at least not on his part. I was doing things I never dreamed of to please him and he didn’t even acknowledge that. It wasn’t that I didn’t enjoy what we had done but I would have thought he could show some appreciation. But as I would find out, he wasn’t about appreciation, he was about what I could do for him.After that it just became a. The details I put together from Gabby's and later Jay's mind. Jay was in charge of an intra-system corvette, a small space-going ship that was not equipped for interstellar travel. The transport was incapable of escaping from the sun's gravitational field and Nelson had calculated (with the help of the ship's AI) a glancing shot through the gravity field to attach a tractor beam to the trapped transport, and had pulled them free. Gabby's father and brother had been on that transport. It was. I sat down in the only vacant chair and waited for Jeb to speak since it was his office."Jon, this is Jubal and Farley, the two men I was telling you about. Now, if you would, will you tell me why you changed your mind about asking for help? I know you're not healed enough to do this, so why ask now?"I introduced myself to both of them, and was in turn told they were ready to follow my orders, if they thought they would be interested in my plan, whatever it was. I spent the next hour or so.