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?"