Wheelan smiled. "I'm as proud of San Miguel as anybody."
"And further, Wheelan, you can't stand to see people have a good time. And even worse, you're against scientific progress. I'm sure that had you lived in Austria at the end of the last century you would have sent Sigmund Freud crank letters."
"He wasn't a quack."
"You annoy me more up close than at a distance."
The two of them were drifting closer to each other.
Karen jumped up. "Mr. Balderstone, perhaps if Glenn attended one of your lectures he wouldn't be so prejudiced."
"I don't want him sulking around my talks."
"But it might convince him."
Balderstone squinted one eye. "Hmm. Perhaps."
Wheelan shook his head. "I wouldn't go near one."