He climbed out at Glendale Center Hospital, paid the hackie, and went to the admitting desk. The nurse gave him a smile. "We were wondering when you'd come visit your wife," she said. "Been away?" "Sort of," he answered, with as little emotion as he had felt while he was being controlled. "I'll be seeing plenty of her from now on. I want my old room back." "But you're perfectly normal!" "That depends on how you look at it. Give me ten minutes alone and any brain vet will be glad to give me a cushioned room." Hands in his pockets, Clocker went into the elevator, walked down the corridor to his old room without pausing to visit Zelda. It was the live Zelda he wanted to see, not the tapping automaton. He went in and shut the door. * * * * * "Okay, you were right and I was wrong," Clocker told the board of directors. "Turn me over to Barnes and I'll give him the rest of the dope on racing. Just let me see Zelda once in a while and you won't have any trouble with me." "Then you are convinced that you have failed," said Mr. Calhoun. "I'm no dummy. I know when I'm licked. I also pay anything I owe." Mr. Calhoun leaned back. "And so do we, Mr. Locke. Naturally, you have no way of detecting the effect you've had. We do. The result is that, because of your experiment, we are gladly revising our policy." "Huh?" Clocker looked around at the comfortable aliens in their comfortable chairs. Solid and respectable, every one of them. "Is this a rib?" "Visits to catatonics have increased considerably," explained Dr. Harding. "When the visitors are alone with our human associates, they tentatively follow the directions you gave in your article. Not all do, to be sure; only those who feel as strongly about being with their loved ones as you do about your wife." "We have accepted four voluntary applicants," said Mr. Calhoun. Clocker's mouth seemed to be filled with cracker crumbs that wouldn't go down and allow him to speak. "And now," Dr. Harding went on, "we are setting up an Information Section to teach the applicants what you have learned and make the same arrangement we made with you. We are certain that we shall, before long, have to increase our staff as the number of voluntary applicants increases geometrically, after we release the first few to continue the work you have so admirably begun." "You mean I _made_ it?" Clocker croaked unbelievingly. "Perhaps this will prove it to you," said Mr. Calhoun. He motioned and the door opened and Zelda came in. "Hello, hon," she said. "I'm glad you're back. I missed you." "Not like I missed you, baby! There wasn't anybody controlling _my_ feelings." Mr. Calhoun put his hands on their shoulders. "Whenever you care to, Mr. Locke, you and your wife are free to leave." Clocker held Zelda's hands and her calmly fond gaze. "We owe these guys plenty, baby," he said to her. "We'll help make the record before we take off. Ain't that what you want?"