He turned to look at her golden beauty.
"Bob, give me one more kiss."
He loosened his seat strap and put his arms around her. For a moment he
felt her soft lips on his....
Then she was gone, and the ship had vanished. For perhaps as long as
a second, alone in space, he was looking with naked, unprotected,
ambition-sated eyes at the distant stars.
The luring white blaze of Venus was the last image he took with him
into the night without stars.