“The alien, the uncanny human who isn't like us. His 'best is like his worst,' isn't it? in our eyes, because both his best and his worst are different from ours.”
“I like him better than I expected to,” she answered.
“Are you going to keep on rearranging him?”
“I'm not so sure as I was what his arrangement is.”
“But the cruise of the Violetta has been a success, hasn't it?”
After a moment's thought she said:
“When it began, I didn't know what I wanted, but I thought I should know it when I saw it. And that was the way it turned out. I found out what it was, when I found it. The doctor and Susannah are most of it.”
“It wasn't the missions, then?”
“Not exactly. It's partly finding things to do, and doing them as they come along.” After a pause she said, as if changing the subject:
“Do you think you can get on with the Mayor here, after all this?”