They laughed together. Henry wanted to tell her what he knew as bitterly
and maliciously as possible, but he simply opened his mouth a few times.
He couldn't say it. Everyone is entitled to an illusion and this was
Phoebe, his blonde wench, his wife, his woman. He looked a bit sick.
She smiled. "Come into the dining room."
The three-dimensional picture had been rolled up into the corner. Henry
promised to put it away in the cellar and clean up the cellar as soon as
he could. Phoebe said that her first husband had never liked to stay
home, he'd always been afraid to live normally.
"I was wrong about the picture," she told him, "and I didn't know till I
saw you leave the house."
It goes without saying that Henry and his Phoebe lived happily ever
after, but it is perhaps not so well known that Phoebe was left with a
little disposal problem, too. She had a rough time finding a buyer (in
secret, of course) for her brand-new humandroid, who looked and behaved
and talked so exactly like that well-known flyer, Speed Roggs....
Transcriber's Note:
This etext was produced from _Imagination Stories of Science and
Fantasy_ August 1953. Extensive research did not uncover any
evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.
Minor spelling and typographical errors have been corrected without
note.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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