"Great!" muttered Betty. "What a lucky girl I am!"
"Yes," admitted Tolliver, "there are problems. If you like, we might get the captain of that Patrol ship to legalize the situation by TV."
"I can see you're used to sweeping girls off their feet," she commented sourly.
"The main problem is whether you can cook."
Betty frowned at him.
"I'm pretty good with a pistol," she offered, "or going over crooked books. But cook? Sorry."
"Well, one of us had better learn, and I'll have other things to do."
"I'll think about it," promised the girl, staring thoughtfully at the deck.
Tolliver anchored himself in a seat and grinned as he thought about it too.
After a while, he promised himself, I'll explain how I cut the fuel flow and see if she's detective enough to suspect that we're just orbiting Ganymede!