' I managed somehow to tap out my confirmation while continuing to pretend to eat. ' Annek looked hurt, but complied docilely to the extent of withdrawing out of earshot. Beaumont ignored the bait. It seemed to me that my own personal conversion, as the nosy Colonel Novak called it, started then.
' 'Excuse me, sir - but can you chin yourself with one hand?' 'What's that got to do with it?' 'Well, we've got forty-eight passengers, sir, and -' I turned back to General Huxley. 'You work for this particular brass. I'm surprised that the legal department referred it to publicity.
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