"You tempt me and I have so much to do, so much ground to cover."
"You can come back."
"We haven't got enough of these time centers. There's quite a lineup to use them. If I go now, there's no telling how long it'll take me to get back."
Julia got up and went to the window. "Am I facing you?"
"Yes."
"You're my only hope, wild as it seems. Vassi, wouldn't it be helpful to your research to have a real live person from my time to study?"
Vassi spoke slowly. "You mean you would be willing to have us—study you?"
"Within limits.... No, not within limits."
"They'll be very angry if I come back without my research project."