“What duplicity!” I shouted. “I am tempted to try to get your number.”
But Yuri held up a restraining hand.
“Quiet, for Lilla’s sake!” he implored. “I do not blame you, for I am
deserving of censure. But hear me out. Hear how I plan, with your aid,
to atone for my crimes.
“Just as my suit was progressing admirably, you—Myles Cabot—arrived on
this planet, and the plans of the Department of Eugenics abruptly
changed from merely mating the two most beautiful Cupians to a really
much more interesting experiment with a strange new breed.”