O’RIELLY SUDDENLY FELT like turning her over his knee and whaling her until she couldn’t sit for a year. This, mind you, he felt in an age where no Earth guy for a thousand years had dared raise so much as a breath against woman’s supremacy in all matters. That male character trait, however, did not seem to be the overpowering reason why O’Rielly, instead of laying violent hands upon this one’s person, heard himself saying in sympathetic outrage, “A shame you had to go to all that bother to get out here!”
“You’re so kind. But I’m afraid I became rather sticky and smelly in there.”
“They ought to cool the air in there with perfume! I’ll drop a suggestion in the Old Woman’s box first chance I get.”
“You’re so thoughtful. And do you have bathing facilities?”
“That door right there. Oh, le
