‘Go away.’
‘Sticking your neck out for an unknown boy at your age!’
‘Who’s sticking his neck out?’
‘You didn’t have to do this plane journey at all. You could have gone back by train or by road. But no, you had to arrange to have yourself shut into a box. A box without a window or a door that will open. A box you can’t escape from. A tight, silent, enclosed, sealed—’
‘ Shut up! ’
‘Huh! You’re breathing short already! In about ten minutes the thing will hit you for six. You ought to have your head examined, Alan Grant, you certainly ought to have your head examined.’
‘There is one part of my cranial equipment that is still in admirable working order.’
‘What is that?’
‘My teeth.’
‘You planning to chew something? That’s no cure.’