"Difference? No difference. Felg is a fool and you gave me pleasure."
"Come with me," Matlin said on impulse.
It was very hot outside and for the first time when they reached the street Matlin knew that he had been close to death.
CHAPTER VI
"Listen," said Matlin. "You don't have to come with me."
"You told me to."
"That was before."
They had walked a long time through the hot damp stillness of the Kedaki night. They had not spoken. Matlin's thoughts drifted aimlessly; the woman was content to share his silence.
"Listen," he said again as they passed the bright glowing lights of the Junction City bus depot, where the big gas-turbine-driven busses snarled as they turned out of the streams of traffic. "I'm going somewhere."