Ramsey led Margot back to the Enterprise.
Moments later—although the elapsed time was subjective—they blasted off.
Margot opened her eyes. She had been sleeping. She smiled at Ramsey tremulously. “I love you,” she said. Her words seemed to surprise her.
“I can’t go back to Earth,” Ramsey said.
“Who wants to go back to Earth—if you can’t?”
They had, Ramsey knew, all of space and the life-span of mortal man to enjoy together.
THE END
Transcriber’s note:
Inconsistent hyphenation (matter transmitter/matter-transmitter, scintillation counter/scintillation-counter, spacesuit/space-suit) has been retained.
Corrections to spelling are flagged thus; holding the mouse over the word will show a note of the original printing. Deliberate mis-spellings (borogroves, momraths; plus all the lithping) have been retained. Minor changes to punctuation were made without comment.