Gus looked at her and smiled sadly. "We can hope so. Though we could still lose some very good men in the Navy. But let us not even think about such terrible things." He closed the door and pulled the rope to get them back to the main floor and walked out with her, rubbing his hands that were now sore from it. "I may one day look into getting a mechanical lift though it would be so very expensive, I can't keep using my hands."