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As she finished saying this, she drew herself up in her chair, removed her glasses and moved about subtly, so all her physical beauty was accentuated and merged hauntingly with her spiritual fineness. Adam removed his own glasses. He looked at Eve in complete absorption. Her exotic presence lent perfume to the air he breathed. He reached into his soul to garner its message. Then he answered her, thoughtfully, “I would select Dora.” “Why?” she asked, as though seeking a new wisdom. “Because she also is a woman. I find that I love her, and I have so much to teach her, she has so much to teach me. Also, she needs me and I need her. She is of my own earth, and the matter that composes her also composes me. We are formative spirits on each other’s level, physically equal. I would have nothing to say to your women; only to listen. I have much to say to Dora, who will listen and rejoice to my presence and my words. You and yours have the love of pure learning. We have yet to develop that on our earth. “Eve,” he continued, speaking slowly, “I loved you in the sun as I can barely remember now, nor repeat again outside of it. I love you so much at this moment that I could leave you and not miss you, knowing you also have loved me equally. It is strange but true. I have learned.” “Yes, you have learned,” she replied, “and I also have learned. I have learned what it is for a peeress of | the Alpha Centaurians to co. tous tear can best describe in one word, ‘delicious.’ However, our slowest men, any one of them, would have been just a little more than your equal in the sun.” At that moment the nondescript humming of the radio system in the craft became jumbled static. Then the familiar resonant «oe » “ping” sounded. “Adam!” exclaimed Eve. “We have just crossed the orbit of Mercury again. Oh, glory to life and living! Listen, listen. The noise becomes music again. Do you recognize the selection? It is from your own earth.” 199 INTO THE SUN AND OUT AGAIN feel somewhat inferior to an earthman. It is an experience which I toe aoa tetas rr 1 .