After that, she came and hit me hard for being like that and we laughed and left the place. By the time I came back, Andrea was drinking and my friend... was out and sleeping. Andrea was waiting for me to accompany her for drinks. I told her I will join her in 10 minutes and went to take a bath.After I came back we started our drinks in silence. After some time she broke the silence and asked me why I was silent.Me: I was shy to talk to girls. I don’t know how to talk to girls.Andrea: But you. She hasn’t stopped being melancholy since it all happened,” she said. “I’m at my wits end trying to get her to a place where she can at least accept things and be patient and wait for him to get out. The lawyer said most like six or seven years.” He nodded.“I think that figures to be about right if he stays out of trouble while he’s in there,” he said.“You know, my telling her what’s what isn’t doing it. Maybe you...” she said, and stopped. She was clearly hoping he’d finish the sentence for. Having acclimatized quickly she found herself insulated from the rampant misery that miraculously co-existed with obscene luxury in this remarkable city. There were as many male chauvinists in Mumbai as there had been back in New York, but somehow a good looking blonde American woman with enough funds at her command to buy a small country carried a lot more weight in the third world. Her head office in Mumbai was now decorated far more tastefully than its sanitized Wall Street counterpart, at. After less than 15 minutes had passed we heard what sounded like serious combat! There were numerous explosions and lots of automatic gunfire. I listened to the radio and heard CPT C Smith talking to his wife CPT L Smith. WO3 Anderson suddenly declared an emergency as she took crippling damage to her helicopter. I quickly moved to the tower and used the binoculars to see her plunging toward the ground flaming and smoking. At least there was not a secondary explosion when she hit the ground. I.