This naturally took more time and even then was not conclusive. Even the ship’s captain could not retrace his course with any certainty. Somebody la...ter suggested that the captain might in fact have been somewhat reluctant to furnish exact details about his course. Smuggling was rife in the Aegean and many ship’s masters were not above availing themselves of this welcome supplement to their income. By this time of course it was vanishingly unlikely that I could be still alive at all and when a. "You need to go to the hospital! I've seen what the sun can do to European skin." Tom took me to casualty, I had dressed in a white Indian cotton dress, I had no underwear on as it was too painful, as I left the house and got into Tom's car I realised that the dress was almost see through, in the past I had only ever worn it with a blouse and slip under it, I couldn't worry about the propriety of it all, I was in too much pain. Tom took me to the hospital but Paul turned up to take me home, I. I wasn't in any sort of a hurry. I presented the air of a modest girl, and I was, except on certain dates and at the college parties. Taking my brother to a party meant proving to him that I was not the girl he thought I was. There was also the possibility that we'd have sex, which bothered me a bit.The problem was not whether I'd get pregnant and have a retarded baby. I'd been going to these parties for almost a year, and had had enough come pumped into me to get a lot of women pregnant. Jo. Lisa got on her elbow looked at me."Spill the beans, buddy," she smiled."What beans?" I asked, as innocently as I could. "Cut the crap. You're late. Something happened and I want to know what." I'm tired," I said, pulling my shirt over my head to make my point. "I'll tell you tomorrow," I said, bracing my left foot against the back of the runner on my right and pushing it off."You'll tell me tonight. I'm not leaving," Lisa proclaimed, dropping her head onto my pillow and closing her eyes with a.