On Terra, her back and his knife would be out of her watchfulness.
"We won't need to wait that long," Hubert Penrose told him dryly. "I'm sending off an official report, tomorrow; you can be sure Dr. Dane will be given full credit, not only for this but for her previous work, which made it possible to exploit this discovery."
"And you might add, work done in spite of the doubts and discouragements of her colleagues," Selim von Ohlmhorst said. "To which I am ashamed to have to confess my own share."
"You said we had to find a bilingual," she said. "You were right, too."
"This is better than a bilingual, Martha," Hubert Penrose said. "Physical science expresses universal facts; necessarily it is a universal language. Heretofore archaeologists have dealt only with pre-scientific cultures."
THE END
[1] [Transcriber's Note: There's an uncorrected error here: the third element is "Sarfalddavas" above but "tirfalddavas" below. This wasn't changed in later versions of the text, so it's not clear which is correct. The capitalized one would be consistent with the other names, and the "Sar-" implies a relationship with the first element, which *is* in the same group. Or maybe the character misspoke, in her excitement?]