Chapter fourteenDelia said: “I am glad to see you are still in one piece, husband.”
And I said, and I opened my mouth — and I could say nothing. I took her into my arms and felt the powerful grip of her arms about me, a quick passionate convulsion of energy, crushing me to her and then releasing. Oh, yes, Delia is a most fiery lady!
After a space there in the aft cabin of Vendayha Lady she let me go and, lightly, said: “And I suppose you will tell me some of it?”
We flew on through thin air and I told her some of it. Mevancy was being looked after and a flushed young subby — a sort of leutnant zurluft — was turned out of his cabin to make room for her. She’d given Delia such a look as the voller picked us up as would have curled me up inside if I hadn’t known the exact score. I may say
