<div class="floatright">(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd468/sybakrys/Tyler/dorian-gray2.jpg)</div><strong>Tyler converses with Robert and Irina</strong><br/><br/>The answer from Robert, while Malsika looked on, was informative but direct, Tyler thought. The man clearly did not wish to converse further with the Major. So Tyler smiled in response to Maliska’s smile and gave the man a slight nod as he explained the situation. It was then that Irina volunteered her services, so before returning his attentions back to the ones closest to him, he thought it proper to thank Robert. “Most interesting Robert. I am grateful for your clarification. Perhaps later we can converse more on the subject once the ladies retire. However, for now my attentions are needed elsewhere. I am sure you understand.”<br/><br/>He paused for a moment so to get a reaction from the man before turning to address Irina. He was about the respond when the good doctor spoke up. So Tyler listened to the story and remembered similar incidences while in India himself. When sure that the man had finished his address, Tyler returned his attention to Irina.<br/><br/>“Well don’t we both feel like the last ones picked for the dance” he joked. He then looked around for a moment before speaking once again. “Well if no one has any objections I would like it very much if you would, even though you claim to be slow, assist me with both choosing my weapon and indeed cocking it. Unless of course there is another who you would prefer to assist or indeed if there is someone who would prefer to be assisted by you? It would not be the first time I have had to cock by myself. My small book of lithographs will attest to that.”<br/><br/>The suggestive tone from her did not go unnoticed so in closing the Major felt it necessary to enquire. “Perhaps during shooting or on another occasion, if either happens before the horse riding we could discuss what it is that you enjoy so much about riding. That is of course if you have the time to humour me?” He smiled and as he did so he considered it was probably about time that he toned it down. The Major was finding it incredibly easy to slip in the odd innuendo and until asked not to it, it looked like he would have to self-edit. So the comment in regard to his lithographs and indeed the riding would be his last. He was not going to be comic relief for the masses and besides this was not the way he wished to present himself given his feelings for the absent Lady Rowena.<br/>