"It is."
She rose from her couch and walked the room like a caged beast.
"You could hardly take me, a commoner, back with you...."
With growing shock she realized that she was more than half sincere in her request.
"It is not done. It is unlike you to suggest it."
"Well, that's that, I suppose." She stopped and toyed idly with a box of chessmen on his table. "Would you care for a game of Terran chess? I'll try to play very intelligently, so that you won't be too terribly bored."
"If you like. But there are more interesting...."
"Do you think," she interrupted quickly, "that you could beat me without sight of the board or pieces?"
"What do you mean by that?"
"I just thought it would be more interesting for you. I'll take the board over to my bed, and you call out your moves and I'll tell you my replies. I'll see the board, but you won't."