Cripps nodded.
"That?" I asked weakly.
"_That_," he said, and tore up the paper.
I watched my future as a Legal Eagle flutter down to the floor. "And I
thought they were dancing," Thais said sadly.
* * * * *
Well, the story doesn't end quite there. Gleda and I were arrested for
running an obscene show. Gleda doesn't speak to me anymore. Nor do any
of the people who were there that night. Lyra and Gleda get all their
divorces at Pancho's Splitzmart now. It took most of my prot account to
bail us out and pay our fines. Thais is with me. We're married and we
haven't a prot between us for a divorce, so we'll just have to _stay_
married.
The Venerians came out all right though. They were deported.