"Why a lawyer?"
"Because when lawyers leave their loving wives and adoring children to go to their offices, they know they'll be coming home that same night, not going off to some impossible island nobody ever heard about...."
"Stanley's a lawyer," Douglass said.
"Damn you, come back to me," Charity said.
"I'll have to, to make you an honest woman," he said.
"And to give the baby a name," Charity said.
"What baby?"
"The one I think we made last night," Charity said.
"Last night, or ten minutes ago?" he replied.
"I hope we did. Whenever," Charity said.
"How do you like them apples, Colonel?"
"Hey, is this the right time to discuss something like that? "Douglass asked.
"The best time," Charity said.
"If a man doesn't believe that a woman loves him after she says she wants his baby, he'll never believe it. I want you to know it, Doug."
He stopped in the act of pulling his shorts on and went to the bed and sat on it.
"Me, too," he said.
"That's close," Charity said.
"I love you," he said.
"Correct," she said.
"That wins you your choice of a trip to the sunny and romantic Adriatic isle of Vis, a cement bicycle, or whatever else your little heart desires. Me, for example."
"Jesus, honey, they're waiting for me."
"I thought RHIR" "It does," he said.
"Puck 'em, let 'em wait
."
"
"em? 'em?"" Charity asked.
[SIX]
There was now some official stationery available to Headquarters, U.S. Forces in the Philippines. It was a good-quality, twenty-four-pound watermarked bond paper, with an engraved letterhead. The letterhead read,
THE DOLE CORPORATION
Pineapple Plantation Three "There Are None Finer" Mindanao, Territory of the Philippine Islands