As if anything on Kimon could be unsatisfactory!

"Perhaps you will want to dress," the captain said. "There still is time for dinner."

"Oh, certainly," said Bishop. "Most assuredly I will."

And wished he had not said it.

"We'll send up the bags," the captain said. "No need to register. That is taken care of. If you'll permit me, sir."

5

The rooms were satisfactory.

There were three of them.

Sitting in a chair, Bishop wondered how he'd ever pay for them.

Remembering the lonely twenty credits, he was seized with a momentary panic.