I know she was thinking the breakfast place on base or maybe Denny’s. For this talk we went to the big hotel in downtown Albany and had a real break...ast with eggs Benedict and Champagne.When we finished breakfast I popped the question. “Do you want a divorce?She looked at me with a surprised look. “You’re asking me?”“Who else should I ask” I cleverly replied. She said “I thought you would be telling me, not asking, Neil.”“Well, I’m asking.” She quickly replied “NO! I want you, not a divorce” My. I had no idea how.I threw off the sheets to get up.Then I realised that I was dressed as a French maid. I had never even puton any women's clothes before. How could I describe this? It was likewhen I was learning to swim. I remember that I wanted to step slowly intothe water but instead I was thrown in the deep end. I panicked and had tobe rescued.This felt similar yet this was different as I didn't want to learn to wearwomen's clothes or to wear women's clothes for that matter!And like. The road swirls up the hills and you vanish in the woods, after two miles you can turn left on Mansion Hilltop Road. That road is a dead end road and at the end you will find a house, locally known as “The Mansion.”The original house was already there when I was born but the owners abandoned it in the sixties. Slowly it changed from a beautiful mansion into a desolated ruin. They tried to sell it, owh they tried it for sure. But who buys a mansion that you first need to take down ? no one in. All long and glossy. I can only think of who her brothers might be."And who is this lovely lotus blossom?" I ask.She blushes. "I was going for cherry blossom but I think I like lotus better," she manages a good recovery."You are welcome," I give her a dignified nod.Turning back to Lisbon I decide she will not be put off until she is satisfied."I was born more than a hundred years ago. I have been in outer space and now I have returned to do the universes' bidding," I say, putting as much boom.