" Betty waved her arm, indicating Bret and Malcolm. "However, as you can tell, it has tremendous results." Wait, you experimented on us?" Doug asked, ...tepping closer though maintaining his distance. The man with him, though, remained by the car. "Isn't that a little ... unethical? I mean, what would happen if you'd been wrong?"Betty turned her hands palms up, cocking her head. "Then they'd both have died. As I said, it was a risk, but it was based on sound scientific principles. I discussed it. "She laughed heartily. "If I'm not, I'm missing a hell of an opportunity. Yes, I'm definitely bisexual." Did you fall in love with her?" No, I lusted, David. I did a lot of lusting."He chuckled. "I noticed. By the way, I visited you a few times and didn't touch you. You were too occupied with Denise, and I couldn't risk joining you."I know, she said silently. She wasn't ready to tell him she sensed his presence when his consciousness visited her. It gave her an edge, and intuitively she felt. My 'fligger, ' yet! "... Now, you don't know that, for sure, Mabel," I answered, finally. "Maybe I get off, saying 'yes ma'am' to her, when my -- what did you call it?... My 'fligger'?... is in her mouth!"She cackled like a fat hen. "That's more like it! I always knew you could talk right out, plain! You were always such a gentleman, on the golf course! But when I played with younger women, I'd catch you, once in awhile, stealing a little look at 'em! And I'd think, 'he's a nice,. It took him about two hours and he almost drowned several times. BUT: he was successful!The second Lieutenant, who observed this, prayed to the Lord and said: “Lord, please give me the strength AND the necessary tools to cross this river!”poofThe Lord gave him a tub and he managed to cross the river despite the fact that the tub almost capsized a couple of times.The third Lieutenant who observed all this knelt down and prayed: “Lord, please give me the strength, the means and the intelligence.