The one thing I had left out was the feelings I'd started to notice and I guess knowing I'd kept quiet about that made me mute at that moment. "You're... having trouble telling me this, aren't you?" he said."I guess so."Then he said, "Have you talked to Theresa? This is probably a better conversation to have with someone--female." That's the problem," I said, and explained.He thought for a moment. "Why don't you talk to Julia?" Julia was his current girlfriend. Not that I saw her a lot and we. He questions Cavaradossi, the tenor, briefly about information that he, Scarpia, wants, and when Cavaradossi won't answer immediately puts him to horrific torture. Sure, that was just grand opera, but it was verismo opera—meant to parallel the truth—and the scenario was pretty readily accepted as realistic. And with about half the country already supporting torture as an acceptable means of extracting information from suspected—only suspected!—terrorists, I wouldn't submit a goldfish to that. He was perplexed because he figured the added hands to help make her job easier would have been welcome news and not a cause for distaste.That very night Heather announced that she was carrying Wesley's baby and that they were going to get "hitched" at the resistance headquarters the following weekend if there were no unexpected setbacks like getting killed first. Wendy seemed a bit put out but Mike had absolutely no idea what the cause might be other than she got beaten to something by her. } She sighed, and put back the package with the multi-colored scarves, and the one with the leather band watch, gold plated kite-shaped scarf pin and matching earrings. She still had to unpack the rest of the stuff for her room. Until the department store delivered the things they'd bought, the only other change of clothes she had was lying on the floor. And on her shoulders and boobs, she thought, pulling the material of the button-down pale pink blouse. {But not pulling hard enough to cause.