уIтm not going to take it,ф he said doggedly. уThereтve got to be detailed reports on how this business works. Dammit, if vapor-clouds in space can be used to keep a planet warm, they can be used to shade a planet, too! If you resign, somebody else will have to come out here to make observations and work out the details of the trick! Nobody could be gotten here in less than a year! You need to stay here to build up a reportўand you ought to be available for consultation when this thingтs to be done somewhere else! Iтll report that I insisted as a Survey emergencyўф
Riki said confidently:
уOh, thatтs all right! Heтll do that! Of course! Wonтt you?ф
Massy nodded dumbly. He thought, Iтve been lonely all my life. iтve never belonged anywhere. But nobody could possibly belong anywhere as thoroughly as Iтll beJong here when itтs warm and green and even the grass on the ground is partly my doing. But Rikki will like for me still to be in the Service. Women like to see their husbands wearing uniforms. ╬
Aloud he said:
уOf course. It . . . really needs to be done. Of course, you realize that thereтs nothing really remarkable about it. Everything Iтve done has been what I was taught, or read in books.ф
уHush!ф said Riki. уYouтre wonderful!ф
