Six minutes to six. The tall young Army Lieutenant lifted his face, and noted the exact time. His heart was pounding because he could not control it. In six minutes, he would see the woman who had filled a special place in his life for the past 13 months. He had never seen her, yet her written words had been with him and supported him. Four minutes to six. People were walking fast. A girl passed close to him, and he stared. She was wearing a read flower on her suit, but it was not the little red rose they had agreed upon. Besides, this girl was too young, about 18, whereas Hollis Meynell hade frankly told him she was 30. He was 29. His mind went back to that book – the book God Himself must have put into his hands out of the hundreds of Army library books, sent to the Florida training camp. Of Human Bondage, it was, and throughout the book were notes in a woman's writing. He had never believed that a woman could see into a man's heart so tenderly, so understandingly.