Captain Johannson kept his eyes on the paper on his desk, pencil poised, as the pretty girl in the chair watched him anxiously.
"I'm going to ask you some unusual questions," he said. "So don't be surprised. You might call this a sort of 'psychological test.'"
The girl called Cleveland nodded.
"There won't be any pat answers, you understand. The outer-space questions, as we call them, demand more—inventive answers, you might say. So don't be nervous."
"All right," Cleveland said, none the less nervously.
"Here's the first question," said the captain. "Let's say you're in your own home, and the water supply is suddenly turned off. And you knew that it wouldn't work again for forty-eight hours. What would you do?"
The girl stared. "Why, I'm not sure." She thought a while. "I suppose I'd see if there were any water in the frig."
"Yes, of course," said the captain. "But what if you didn't have any refrigeration equipment?"
"Well, I'd see if there were fruit or vegetables around. I'd get all the juice I could find. I'd drink that."
"How about bathing?"