"Yes."
"Everybody knows we'll have to fight them someday. We built a space station and so they had to go and build one too and they want to wreck our station so they'll have the only one. And when they do the big war will start."
"And I suppose the Eastern Bloc knows you want to wreck their space station?"
"Why they can't think that because we had one first and we could have stopped them from building one but we didn't because we aren't mean like they are."
"I see." Joe thought that over very carefully for a long time and then all the food on the tray was gone and Biddy said, "What's the sky bloc like, Joe?"
"The sky bloc?"
"That's where you said you came from."
"Oh, yes. Well, it's a little hard to describe. It's very big and I think probably you'd like it if you ever went there."
"Did they send you away?"
"Not exactly. They sent me down here to do something."