"What do you plan to do?" he asked.
"I have no plans."
"You want to stay on with the service, don't you?"
"That depends," said Sutton, "on how you feel about it. I had presumed, of course, that you wouldn't want me."
"We owe you twenty years' back pay," said Adams, almost kindly. "It's waiting for you. You can pick it up when you go out. You also have three or four years of vacation coming. Why don't you take it now?"
Sutton said nothing.
"Come back later on," said Adams. "We'll have another talk."
"I won't change my mind," said Sutton.
"No one will ask you to."
Sutton stood up slowly.