” I gritted my teeth. Harley Quinn laughed and I ran at her and she hefted her baseball club, but I slid between her legs and smoothly threw her ove... the railing. She screeched as she fell, and I went for the vault, and started unlocking it, for one of the guards had given me the code, when I felt something slithering across my back. I whipped around and saw a breath-taking woman standing there, hands outstretched.As I watched, vines coiled around my neck, and started to tighten.“Stop.” I. "You don't stand the slightest chance of actually having to court, let alone marry, any of these women. We're going to be in up to our necks with gold diggers, fortune hunters, actresses, beauty queens, Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders, fashion models and vapid attention whores. We'll bring them all in by the bus loads, by the thousands and let them all fight it out and hang themselves. We'll give them all the rope they can use! Hell, we might even issue them sharp objects and let them go at each. . she was smiling.Had she performed for the Bundespolizei, the odor would have been reported to Berlin and that would have helped them in their conviction that she was truly the Prussian Duchess she denied.The von Holsteins were prodigious farters.The smile soon faded ... she was alone ... mostly. The single exception to her isolation was the man in the remotely supplied HAZMAT mask and white coveralls checking the area for gas leaks or hazardous spills of corrosives. He waved his sniffer wand. “I just don’t want to come off as a know-it-all ... Engineer, by the way ... Bob Newman. My friend Carlie...”We exchanged handshakes.‘Another couple’. That makes US the first couple. Interesting thought, there, Carlie. Let’s look at the dinosaurs.Five o’clock, we’re headed south to Galveston.“We’re pushing too hard, Bob,” I said. “Either of those museums, I could’ve spent a whole day. Or more...”“If it’s YOUR thing, this doesn’t have to be the last time,” he told me. “I didn’t want to drag you.