"They're two of the world's best—absolutely." Nadia looked at him, surprised, for he had not seen anything complimentary to himself in her remark. "Wait until you meet them. They're men, Nadia—real men. And speaking of meeting them—please try to keep on loving me after you meet Norm Brandon, will you?"
"Don't be a simp!" her brown eyes met his steadily. "You didn't mean that—you didn't even say it, did you?"
"Back it comes, sweetheart! But knowing myself and knowing those two...."
"Stop it! If Norman Brandon or Quincy Westfall had been here instead of you, or both of them together, we'd have been here from now on—we wouldn't even have gotten away from the Jovians!"
"Now it's your turn to back water, guy!"
"Well, maybe, a little—if both of them were here, they ought to equal you in som
