Probably Rose will invite her to dinner one night to get her to feel less like an outsider, and I understand where you’re coming from about the guys...treating her with respect. That’ll be my project, too.’ ‘Okay, so now all you have to do is keep this under your hat until it happens. When I announce it, look surprised.’ ‘Oh, I will. How’s this?’ and he made an exaggerated face to indicate the kind of shock that would mean he just saw a ghost. That was good for a laugh, and we were exchanging. Politics just plain pure politics. Every now and then I made it work.I turned the news conference over to the Ambassador who was beaming. He spoke for ten minutes. Eric smiled and gave me a knowing nod; he was well aware of the challenges.Eric and Director Hamler spoke at length, patting everyone on the back.Hanna and Melinda were both in the front row, both getting questioned intensely before the conference started.Just before Eric closed the news conference down I asked “Melinda, have your. I hadn't realised but Tom had come upstairs behind me and was now watching me, stood at my door. I turned round and saw him there and I started to blush, but giggled a little to try to soften my embarrassment. "Does it look good on me?" I asked, praying that he would say yes. “Looks good, hun. Never thought I'd see you dressed like that, shows your features really well." He was very confident which made me blush slightly more. “Thank you. I was worried I was gonna look fat or it wouldn't. Back to my story:From the second I started talking to Wouter I instinctively knew that I would be staying with him. After he mentioned that he had never married because he had no interest in women, I countered by telling him that too was disinterested in girls. At that, his face lit up like a Catherine-wheel at a fourth of July pyrotechnics display. Although there was no communication of a sexual nature during our exchanges, his eyes, nonetheless, were always suggestively playful.The deal was.