"Certainly as long as an hour."
"Hour?"
"Yes ... say, what is this?"
Cal Blair shook his head. "Are you all right?"
"Of course. Are you?"
"I think so. What were you getting at, Tinker? Let's start all over again."
"You were here an hour ago to bid me hello. We enjoyed our reunion immensely and affectionately. Then you said you were going home to change your suit—which you have done. Now you come in, acting as though this were the first time you'd seen me since Tony and I took off for Titan three months ago."
Cal growled in his throat.
"What did you say?" asked Tinker.
"Benj."