Barry turned roughly and snapped: "You'd sell yourself for your world?"
"It would not be a difficult sale," she answered.
"But a bargain hard to keep pure," he snorted.
Laurie smiled. "It often happens," she said with a ring of sincerity, "that duty and logic both direct one toward his heart's desire; that's when life is best."
"And you?" Barry scowled.
"I find neither duty nor logic to be odious terms," she said; "and I'm not one to abandon a pleasant idea just because it isn't original with me."
Louis Ford suddenly jumped. "Hurry!" he shouted. "She's stalled us to the danger point!"
"Trickstress," scorned Barry.
"They lie!" screamed Laurie. "Lester—believe me!"
Calvin Blaine turned to her. "Les will do as he believes," he said. "And all is not lost. We may yet win; remember—this, too, is but probability!"