Edith Ward slammed her purse down on his desk. "You fool!" she snapped. "Stop it!"

"Don't be upset," he said in an overly-soothing tone that was intended to infuriate. It succeeded.

"You blind fool. You're to stop experimenting in that superspeed drive!"

"Am I?"

"Yes," she blazed. "And I have official orders to stop it."

"Miss Ward, you tried to block me before. You did not succeed. Why do you demand that I stop it?"

"Because it will not work!"

"You've experimented?"

"I have not because it is dangerous!"

"Then any knowledge you may have about this science is either guesswork or—feminine intuition?"