“Oh l doubt it,” she replied, “l mean she might have done a bit in her undies but l doubt if she did anything more than that. I’m surprised sh...’s involved with Tommy Jones though, he’s a real flash harry, thinks he’s god’s gift to women, l have thought for a while that he was sniffing around the vicar’s wife, never thought Jean Lovell would go for the likes of him.”“I can’t get the thought of them together out of my head,” he said, “she’s beautiful.”“Oh, so you’re in love with her are you,”. I heard mom talking to Jennie my sister and Jennie looked at me and nodded her head several times. Next several days I caught Jennie looking at me a few times and she'd blush then look away.After we camped for the night Jennie came up to me "Caleb can we talk?" Sure Jennie" I smiled."Are you on watch tonight brother?" No, Jennie, not tonight, tomorrow."Jennie smiled and blushed and I blushed, not knowing why. Jennie smiled up at me and I felt warm."Caleb the family needs you. Ma is afraid you'd. It helps that my sisters don't bust me about it." What do you mean, it feels okay?" asked Daria skeptically. "How can you just accept such a complete warping of your identity?" Let me put it this way, Daria. I'm playing around with this alternate personality for a year. I'll only have to do it for a year. It's sort of a vacation from the old me." Maybe that will make it easier for you," Daria replied. "Keyboard tells me," she continued, "that you like to exercise your brain doing something. He probably wouldn't be returning to his desk this evening, but the screen would lock up before anyone came into the office and could discover exactly which websites he'd been browsing.He led Zara to the escalator and accompanied her as it rose to the top floor. He'd only ever been there before to attend meetings where he'd felt very much like an insignificant cog in a giant multinational wheel. Zara strode out of the lift while Alex dawdled behind and watched as the young woman pushed open.