[Richard is not quite aiming for deep, personal friendship. After all, those were luxury for someone like him. To him the word "friend" means an ally, someone who's support he could count on to have. And as a man of military, he believed that the colonel could follow his logic.]

I know Silco. [Intimately so...] I am more interested in this young lady you speak of. Do you believe she would be interested in joining a cause to secure our numbers?