"What is it?" asked Lorelei.
"Why, it's simply to like turn your whole life over to Bog," Alex told her. "Read the Bible and do as Bog says and He'll keep you from being baddiwad. That's what the Charlie told me."
"Do you really believe it's that simple?" Lorelei asked.
"So the Charlie says," Alex told her.
A few nights later, three young men of about Alex's age arrived at the flat. All three carried Bibles.
"Meet my new droogs," Alex said by way of introduction. "This is Colin, Roger, and Simon."
"How do you do," said Lorelei, shaking each young man's hand.
"We're going to be having like Bible study here at this time every week," Alex went on. "You may like sit in on it with us if you want."
Curious, Lorelei did so. Colin began the meeting with prayer, and afterwards there were scripture readings and discussion of what the scriptures meant. Following that was a period of general discussion during which Roger asked Lorelei about herself.
"Are you a Christian?"
"Why, yes, of course I am," she told him.
"At what age did you give your life to God?" Lorelei noticed that he spoke conventional English rather than nasdat and wondered whether he would influence Alex to do the same.
"I'm not sure exactly what you mean." Lorelei frowned. "I've always been a Christian."
Roger looked at her sympathetically. "Would you like for me to pray with you?"
Lorelei shrugged. "Sure. Why not?"
He did, and she didn't feel any different.
"Well, what did you think?" Alex asked after the other three young men had left.
"Well, they certainly seem...enthusiastic," Lorelei replied. "But are you sure this is the right thing for you to be involved in, Alex?"
"I'm a servant of Bog now, Lorelei. I must do His will from now on."
Several days later, Alex's new friends arrived at Lorelei's flat once again.
"I'm off to do mission work," Alex told Lorelei. "We're going to like share Bog's good news with others."
"Please be very, very careful, Alex," she warned. "You know what kind of people are out there."
"Bog will protect us," Alex assured her.
One day it occurred to Lorelei that her period was several weeks overdue. Since becoming Alex's lover, she knew that she should use caution, but not really wanting to bother with it, she had kept putting off doing anything about it.
The next day at the hospital, she swiped a pregnancy test from where they were stored, quickly slipped into the restroom, and performed it on herself.
"You're going to be a father," she told Alex when she returned home that evening.
"Really!" He stared at her in shock for a few moments and then a wide grin slowly spread across his face. "Well, what do you know!"
"What do you want to do, Alex?"
He looked deeply worried. "You don't want like an abortion, do you?"
"I hadn't even considered that," she told him. "But what do you want to do?"
Alex came to her and put his hand over her belly. "I want to keep it," he said softly. "And I want to be with you, too. Will you marry me?"