"Since I'm asking all the questions maybe you'd like to ask some about me. If so, fire away." She volunteered.
I'd had it with everything! I turned savagely on her and she jumped back startled, "I don't have questions about you, all I want is your body!"
I swung back away from her and instantly all I wanted to do was swear.
"Darn it!" I exploded out with, as I smashed my fist into the trunk of a pine tree, which caused dead pine needles to rain down upon us. My fist hurt, but I didn't care. I swung back to her, the pain in my hand helping to clear my thoughts.
"I'm sorry! I didn't mean to say that! I know it sounded bad."
"Yes, you did." She responded simply.
"Okay so I did, but I shouldn't have and I'm sorry. I actually want to know all I can about you; it's just that I'm in a lousy mood right now."
"You're forgiven." She responded simply, as she reached out for my hand and started pulling pine bark fragments out of it. I stared at her lowered head blankly.
"You're not mad at me?" I asked not sure what to expect at all from this woman.
She looked up into my eyes, "Why would I be?"
"For saying something to hurt you."
"I told you that I forgave you for that."
"You not still thinking about it?" I asked.
"No." She said shaking her head, as she began to smile at me.
I shook my head, "I don't understand you!"
She just smiled mysteriously and started back out, but she didn't let go of my hand and oddly I didn't want her to. We walked that way for a while, until the way became too brushy and she dropped back behind me. I missed the cool touch of her palm and fingers grasping mine. She'd wanted me to ask questions of her and wanting to please her I got busy to thinking about a good one to ask her.
"What is the single greatest achievement of your life to date and breaking into the Code's mainframe doesn't count." I asked.
Without hesitation she responded with, "Helping to lead my father to the saving grace of believing in Jesus Christ before he died."
I had not been expecting that of all the answers that she could have given me. She was so serious about her faith and her genuineness of zeal struck me once again in a way that I could not ignore. She wasn't just saying what she did about faith. She truly believed that was her greatest moment in life out of all the award-winning patents she must have been personally involved with. She continued to be an untouched unspoiled wonder to me.