" I thought she was going to cry. "Please, Susie ... tell me." She picked up her mug of tea and stalked off into the lounge and I followed, in time to...see her sink wearily into an armchair.I sat quietly in another chair, fairly close, at an angle to her so I could look at her without being intimidating (I didn't know what I was doing at the time, it was just instinctive),We sat silent for a while."My flat-mate has been arrested for possession of a banned substance," she said, despondently. "I. ...I will give you a list of things to buy. Some areexpensive but as the advert says 'You're worth it'..." She laughedI stood and admired myself in the mirror, Roberta stood behind me and Ilooked at two sissy maids, both of us with contented smiles on our faces.I wondered if I should feel like this with someone else but I knew Iloved Jenny, always have and always will. Roberta broke my reverie."So do you want to see my collection of girly things" She asked"Yes please"She moved to the wardrobe. But, we can fight some large campaigns if they are of the right type. This sort of battle is not a problem, because we have much better training and equipment. If the Militarists had spent the right amount of effort in training and equipment, we could never compete with them. I do agree that we are more emotionally inclined to be a police force than an army. I'll seriously look into the problem and get back to you." Meanwhile," said Jim, "I'll contact Jane and tell her to stop building tanks. Through cheesecake and coffee we listened to the orchestra start up, Big Band and Swing Jazz. We laughed that we had both dreaded the thought of being here alone and that we were happy that providence had somehow fated us to sit at the same table at the hotel. I asked her to dance, as a number with a moaning saxophone and brushes on the drums was just getting going. A slow dance in a darkened room, the glittering ball casting a thousand shimmering lights as it twirled ever so slowly overhead..