At 03:38 PM 7/10/2002 -0400, you wrote: >Sorry for the tersely phrased interrogative. Here is what I should have >asked: > >Underneath one short sentence that was followed by a long sentence that took >up three lines, and proposed two separate but related guesses was your >reply. >"That is correct," I took to possibly mean that the the entire sentence is >correct. This would mean that Mario HAD just left Aliera. This is the >clarification >that I was looking for. Okay, now I'm really confused. It is true that, in Jar-head, there is a scene where Aliera appears looking rather happy. In that scene, we have just missed seeing Mario. Does that answer your question?