"I find it very difficult to put into words," he stumbled. "The usual expressions of this emotion are so hackneyed. I would like to find some other way to say it."
"Say what?"
"That I love you."
She ran to him. The impact knocked the breath out of both of them, but neither noticed.
"Isn't the old phrase good enough, silly?" she scolded and kissed him. "I love you too, lover baby."
Behind them, at the key words, the sonic-signal closed the hidden doors in the archway and they were alone in the reconciliation chamber.
Joe discovered that Sam Tullgren, Director of the Domestic Center, had thought of everything to make reconciliations complete.