Andred treated Leela with a proud devotion, while other Time Lords smirked behind his back. In return, she tried

hard to behave in the way that he said was proper and she thought was stupid. But in the secret dark, when they

lay together, they giggled at the affectations and manners of the Time Lord gentry and had secrets and made

plans that were theirs alone and could not be accessed on a catalogue port or consulted in an authority list.

'I'm so lucky,' he'd said amid their frequent bouts of giggles. 'They never taught us this at the Academy. I'd like to

see their faces. I don't think anyone's done this for... it must be thousands and thousands of years. All the others

do is watch the aliens at it and précis their notes afterwards.'

And then the giggling would stop.