"
He waved and vanished. They had, of course, to wait until the ground at
least partly cooled before the landing-sling could be used. Around them
the noises of the forest continued. There were cooling, crackling sounds
from the ship.
"I wonder how they found their way back!" said Babs. "I didn't think
they ever could. Did you?"
"Babs," said Cochrane, "you lied to me! You said you'd wake me in two
hours. But you let me sleep all night!"
"You'd let me sleep the night before," she told him composedly. "I was
fresher than you were, and today'd have been a pretty bad one. We were
going to try to kill some animals. You needed the rest."
Cochrane said slowly:
"I found out something, Babs. Why you could face things. Why we humans
haven't all gone mad. I think I've gotten the woman's viewpoint now,
Babs. I like it."
She inspected the looming blister-ports of the ship, now waiting for the
ground to cool so they could come aboard.
"I think we'd have made out if the ship hadn't come," Cochrane told her.
"We'd have had a woman's viewpoint to work from. Yours. You looked ahead
to building a house. Of course you thought of finding food, but you were
thinking of the possibility of winter and--building a house.
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