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Robert A. Heinlein - A Comedy Of Justice
Atec Февраль 27 2008 02:52:13
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.' (I did not mention an embarrassing million dollars. I could not explain it, so I left it out... and Marga had only my word for it; she had never seen it.)
'Margie? Can you fill us in on Alec Graham?'
She was slow in answering. 'I'm afraid I can't add anything to what my husband has told you.'
'Hey! You're letting me down. Your husband gave a detailed description of Dr Jekyll; can't you describe Mr Hyde? So far, he's a zero. A mail drop in Dallas, nothing more.
'Mr Farnsworth, I'm sure you've never been a shipboard stewardess -'
'Nope, I haven't. But I was room steward in a cargo liner - two trips when I was a kid.'
'Then you'll understand. A stewardess knows many things about her passengers. She knows how often they bathe. She knows, how often they change their clothes. She knows how they smell - and everyone does smell, some good, some bad. She knows what sort of books they read - or don't read. Most of all she knows whether or not they are truly gentlefolk, honest, generous, considerate, warmhearted. She knows everything one could need to know to judge a person. Yet she may not know a passenger's occupation, home town, schooling, or any of those details that a friend would know.
'Before the day of the fire walk I had been Alec Graham's stewardess for four weeks. For the last two of those weeks I was his mistress and was ecstatically in love with him. After the fire walk it was many days before his amnesia let us resume our happy relationship - and then it did, and I was happy again
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