"You've never even said you loved me."
He kissed her very tenderly on the lips. "I do," he said.
Then they kissed so fiercely that the Bryd, listening in solely to get
an angle on this whole business, got excited and very nearly got stuck
crosswise in the time-stream.
* * * * *
But two weeks later Dale went to his post on sun-station No. 18, and
started making Paris days last all night. Six months later he was back
for a visit, and Marillyn said, "I'd like to go home, Dale. After all,
you've done your part and much more. And this isn't helping me. It's
pleasant and all that, but it won't make me walk. I could go to the
sanatorium in Florida and it would be just as pleasant and much less
expensive. Then you could pursue a normal course of life."