Arthur was taken aback.  This was no average woman.  Then again, she was an agent.  "Wife it is then, because it would be to hard to play a couple in love convincingly.  We all know that marriage dulls a relationship, after a time."  They would have to stop at a jeweler's and obtain rings.  He did not suppose a poor professor would have to buy anything to expensive and it would go on the expense account anyway.<br/><br/>They exited the airship and emerged into a light summer rain.  Arthur wished for an umbrella, but unfortunately had a cane.  A line of handsome cabs were lined up, waiting to whisk passengers to points unknown.  Around them was an ancient city, full of medieval architecture and Orthodox churches, obscured by the rain.<br/><br/>"Shall we take a cab and find a jeweler, before heading for the border?  It would at least get us out of this blasted rain."