Size is a relative quality and, vast as the Antigean spaceship had seemed on land, in infinite space it was nothing. It was of less significance than an orange-box floating on an ocean, and impressions of the vessel’s frailty had haunted Timothy Penn ever since the takeoff; and now, when he first learned of Sanderlake’s duplicity, these impressions gained in strength and threatened almost to overwhelm him.
He wanted to talk things over with Rose and, as soon as Pollenport could spare him, floated down from the radio-room to the living-compartment that he shared with the other humans. He was disconcerted to find no one there except Prue, who was in her bunk and asleep. He went out into the gangway again and was heading for the control-compartment when he came upon one of the engineers, a f
