Toran and Bayta came closer to "setting up housekeeping" in normal fashion than
at any time in their year of married life. It was a strange sort of
"housekeeping." They lived in the middle of grandeur with an inappropriate
simplicity. Their food was drawn largely from Lee Senter's farm and was paid for
in the little nuclear gadgets that may be found on any Trader's ship.
Magnifico taught himself how to use the projectors in the library reading room [link widoczny dla zalogowanych],
and sat over adventure novels and romances to the point where he was almost as
forgetful of meals and sleep as was Ebling Mis.
Ebling himself was completely buried. He had insisted on a hammock being slung
up for him in the Psychology Reference Room. His face grew thin and white. His
vigor of speech was lost and his favorite curses had died a mild death. There
were times when the recognition of either Toran or Bayta seemed a struggle.
He was more himself with Magnifico who brought him his meals and often sat
watching him for hours at a time, with a queer [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], fascinated absorption, as the
aging psychologist transcribed endless equations, cross-referred to endless
book-films [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], scurried endlessly about in a wild mental effort towards an end he
alone saw.
Toran came upon her in
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