He hadn’t had any fun with a woman and a guy, though. Although it crossed his mind on several occasions.~~Henry got home from work around nine and ...had a few beers and put on some music. He liked to dance while he got ready for the evening. He didn’t like having too much to drink but liked to have a few.Henry was a nice dresser and wore a nice pair of slacks and a dress shirt. He wore a tie because the ladies liked men who wore ties. No suit jacket because that was a bit formal. He called a. Her marriage to Ray became a 'trade off' for her. She would do as he said and in return, she had made rank almost day one since gradating from the USNA.Her 'husband' never much questioned her frequent trips or night activities and the money and power of the CIA and it's connections had made her 'social' life one much in demand, as long as she obeyed him. He would readily use her if it got him something. In this case, a head start running. I don't think Laura was much more than his live-in. "So it wasn't all my problem, I decided, leaving Richard to sit there by himself. I was going back to my dorm. Why couldn't the guy get mad? He should have been jealous, that's what I wanted. My husband was telling me I wasn't worth the trouble, that's what it felt like. He would have signed divorce papers right then and there. It wasn't reasonable to my mind. It wasn't how a man behaved, how a husband reacted to the news that his wife was leaving him for someone else.I should have divorced. Ellie had been struck nearly mute when she first saw Charlie Hutchinson. Charlie found her discomfort charming and knew at that moment he was going to marry this girl. He was thirteen years her senior but this was no impediment in his mind. This mattered not to Ellie in the slightest who, when she found out the age differences acted as if someone had just said the sun came up in the east that morning. Ellie had known immediately that this was the man for her.In a whirlwind romance they were.