However I cannot stop thinking altogether. I guess I think very hard, in fact. My Subconscious insists afterwards that it did register the plop as something came through the slit, but my Conscious failed to notice it at all.
Hours later—my watch says twenty-five minutes but I guess the Mass-Time has affected it—anyway I had three times too much solitary confinement—when will they let me out of here?—there is a knock at the door and a second later it slides apart.
I am expecting Ram or Peter so it takes me an appreciable fraction of a moment to realize I am seeing D. J. M'Clare.
Then I remember he is back on Earth buried in Exam papers and conclude I am having a hallucination.
This figment of my imagination says politely, "Do you mind if I sit down?"
He collapses on the couch as though thoroughly glad of it.
It is a strange thing, every time I see M'Clare I am startled all over again at how good-looking he is; seems I forget it between times which is maybe why I never fell for him as most female students do.
However what strikes me this time is that he looks tired, three-days-sleepless tired with worries on top.
I guess he is real, at that.
He says, "Don't look so accusing, Lizzie, I only just got on this ship myself."
This does not make sense; you cannot just arrive on a ship twenty-four hours after it goes on Mass-Time; or can you?
M'Clare leans back and closes his eyes and inquires whether I am one of the Morse enthusiasts?
So that is the name; I say when we get back I will learn it first thing.
"Well," says he, "I did my best to arrange privacy for all of you; with so many ingenious idiots on board I'm not really surprised that they managed to circumvent me. I had to cheat and check that you really were on
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