He could almost hear her smile. "Nothing."
Karen.
"What?"
You said something the other day that made me wonder. You said, "Please get well." What did you mean by that?
She hesitated for perhaps a fraction of a second. "Professional pride, I guess. And maybe it was just the thing to say."
Oh. He was silent for a while. Then these experiments haven't worked out too well in the past. It was more of a statement than a question.
He thought he detected a tightness in her voice. "George, you might as well know. You're the first man to have ever progressed this far without going hopelessly insane."
It's nice to know I'm not hopeless.
Silence.
I'm sorry, Karen. Maybe I talk too much.