He grunted. "It is. Both. Expensive and efficient."
I laughed. "Say," I said, "you were pretty loaded last night. Know what you told me you were doing here?"
He looked up quickly. "What?"
"You said you were in transmutation." I laughed harder than ever.
e stared at me thoughtfully, and for a second I thought—well, I don't know what I thought, but I was worried. He had a lot of funny-looking things there, and his hand was stretching out toward one of them.
But then he said, "Old Virgie."
"That's me," I said eagerly.
"I owe you an apology," he went on.