Chapter 44

In the spacious room of the observatory, in which the Terrestrials and their Norlaminian hosts had been long engaged in study and discussion, Seaton finally rose, extended a hand toward his wife, and spoke to Orlon. “Your Period of Sleep begins in twenty minutes—and we’ve been awake for thirty hours, which is a long time for us. We will go back to our _Skylark_, and when the Period of Labor begins—that will give us ten hours—I will go over to Rovol’s laboratory and Crane can come back here to work with you? How wou…