"No. Did you expect me to?"
"I wouldn't have been surprised."
She laughed--the sweet familiar laughter spiced with mockery. "You're a
wise man." She cocked her head back and studied him. "You've changed.
You've got so brown and hard and--older. I think I like you even better
now. But I'll have to learn to know you all over again." She pulled
him toward the long, sleek vehicle that waited. "It will be nice," she
said, "this getting acquainted again!"
The broad road took them northward along the coast, away from the
clamoring spaceport and the city. The cliffs rose from the golden sea,
wild and forbidding.