Gaines was silent as they walked back toward the plant. "Bert," he said slowly, "what the hell do you suppose got into him?"
Sokolski shrugged. "You were the one who spotted the trouble with him, Joe. Just think, if you could have checked him out completely—"
Gaines could not help looking up at the stars and saying what he had really been thinking all along, "It's a small world, Bert, a small world."