After finding secretary jobs, at a nearby dress making company with a woman office director, Lilly and Sally felt assured that their Earth mission would be a success. Also, thankfully, 'The Boys' had stopped inquiring about their choices of perfumes – once they had 'switched' to the least offensive ones they could find, to their very sensitive, and totally alien, olfactory sense. Their new chosen scents also seemed to stop the vulgar thoughts that previously had entered many a passing Earth male mind… Thank the Stars!
Innocently enough, 'The Girls', after nearly one Earth year of their 'marriages', had slowly, over the past months, asked more and more questions – about the work The Boys were involved in… and about the human space program. About how far it had progressed… and might soon go?
At first, Jess and Joe each thought it was wonderful, to have a wife take an interest in their job. To have women in their lives that seemed genuinely interested in them. And how hard they worked, in order to be able to afford their nice clothes, and an occasional trip to the summer cabin, or a small hotel near a lovely lake… Also, how lucky they were to have wives that did not mind working themselves!
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At their company lunch break, over some nearby eatery cheeseburgers and root beers:
"Hey, Jess…"
"Yeah, Joe…"
"I had a thought… seems kind of dumb, but you know about us being in competition with the Russians… in space, and all?"
"Well, sure, Joe… but what you getting at?" asked Jess.
Joe suddenly looked very serious, then, in an almost whisper: "Jess… Sally keeps asking me more and more questions… about the stuff I do at the plant. And about what I think of the space program. About if I think we might get to the Moon, as Kennedy had said we would… and if we might then reach out for Mars... or, toward Venus?"
"OK, sure, Joe… Lilly now and then asks me much the same. What of it, buddy?" replied Jess, quickly.
"Well… You don't think… yeah, this sounds really crazy… but, our wives couldn't be… you know… spies or something?"
"Sounds very crazy, Joe… but, we really don't know much about their past lives… that's for sure."
"Well, don't get mad at me, Jess… but, last week, I made an inquiry… with an agent at the nearest FBI office…"
Jess then looked very cross at his friend and next door neighbor. But then it passed… "OK… So, what did you find out, good buddy… my old pal?"