“Could we get it?”
“I have friends there—genuine friends. We could say we were going to stay with them.”
“Commander’d see through that.”
“Commander doesn’t want to.... Commander knows snotties’ human beings—animals, like the rest.” Dyce put down his glass on the table. “Anyhow, means getting out of the ship for a night....”
“D’you know where to go?”
“Find out from Dendy—he knows the ropes.”
“I——”
John drank, that none might read in his face the workings of his mind.
“That fixed?” said Dyce.