If we had your word, we could go ahead, assemble the necessary machinery, snake a certain amount of logs down through the snow this winter and be in readiness when the right moment came.

Without it, however, we can hardly hope for a sufficient supply to carry us through.

And so--" "You want to know--about heem.

You have Ba'teese's word----" "Really--" she seemed to be fencing again.
Houston, with a hard pull at his breath, came directly to the question.
"It's simply this, Miss Robinette.

If I am guilty of those things, you don't want to have anything to do with me, and I don't want you to.
But I am here to tell you that I am not guilty, and that it all has been a horrible blunder of circumstance.