"Call me what you will but I have a normal modesty."
He frowned scornfully. "Have you forgotten that we are of entirely different evolutions?"
Rhinegallis smiled coyly. "You forget," she said, "that to all intents and purposes I am a human being. You nor anyone else will ever get me to say or prove that I am not. That includes acting like one too."
"Let it pass," he said. "My judgment might be faulty. There are excellent doctors, however. If you claim that you intend to act as human as you can you'll have no objection to visiting a doctor."
"Not when necessary," she replied calmly. "But remember, I told you that I would give you no information that would tend to harm."
"And I've told you that when I have evidence that tends to show my correctness I shall not ask for help—I shall take it!"
CHAPTER VIII
Matter Transmission
Using his knowledge of the alien tongue and coupling it to many of the so-called "harmless" records he had been permitted to toy with, Carroll found his work much simpler. There was that business of the circlet of wire mounted on the cylindrical podium in which vibrated a crystal.