"You--" She hesitated. "I know what you need. Your trouble, my boy, is
that underneath that Yankee conservatism, you're a hopeless romantic.
Your mind dwells on the sudden and dramatic. Now the positive benefits
of capacitite aren't anywhere near as quick and spectacular as the
temporary evils were. What you have to do, to satisfy those Puritan
chromosomes, is to produce something really big and fancy, something of
immediate, large value."
He chuckled, lifted out of his dark mood in spite of himself. "I
imagine you're right, Dr. Freud," he said. "But what?"
"I don't know." She frowned with worry for him. "But think, man.
We have leisure now--in another year or so, well, we won't be the
millionaires we once dreamed of, but like everybody else we'll have
real security and real time to ourselves. You could use that time to
work on _something_."
"Hm--" Automatically, his brain turned to practicalities. "Let's see,
now. Capacitite offers a way of concentrating energy enormously ... a
very small packet will hold a hell of a lot--_My God!_" His yell shook
the windows as he leaped to his feet.
"What the devil--something wrong?" Elizabeth got up too.
"No!" He was running toward the phone. "Got to get hold of
Colin--M.I.T.--don't you see, darling?" His hands trembled as he
dialed, but there was laughter in his voice. "Don't you see it?
Spaceships!"
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