Which wasn’t strictly true. The big Earthman was cute, she thought, and it was quaint of him to be in love with her, and to tell her so every day over the radio built into the robot-nonapus. Of course, he was inferior to her in every way, and she wouldn’t think of marrying him or anything like that. But even his inferiority was interesting, in a way.
Yes, it was nice to know he loved her.
And she loved him, too—like an amusing baby brother.
Transcriber’s Notes and Errata
This etext was produced from “Future combined with Science Fiction stories” September 1951. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.
The following typographical errors were corrected:
| Page | Error | Correction |
| 78 | effected | affected |
| 79 | to to | to |