The three boys looked at the men resentfully and one of them said something under his breath, but the girl said, "Button it." Then she asked the men opposite, "Lookin' for someone, mister?" The two men looked away, and this made the boys feel brave. One of them said, "Let's give 'em the works." "No, leave it to me." The girl got up and went across to the two men. "Me and my friends was wondering. Maybe you gentlemen would like to come to a trake in the gort later?" The three boys snickered and the men looked up at the girl and waited with blank faces. "Or maybe you'd rather we put on a hanse for you?" she said. "No, sit down," one of the men--the bigger one--said, and moved back to make room for her. She glanced at him with surprise for a moment and sat down next to him. One of the boys started to get up when he saw this, but the others pulled him down again. "What did you say to us just now?" the big man asked. "It was too small in here." She shook her head and frowned. "Why, that was just ... I said did you want for us to put on a hanse, is all." She had a rather feeble grin. "Yes," the big man said. "We do." She glanced back at her friends nervously, and then at the man again. "I don't get you," she said. "Neither do we," the smaller man said. The boys across the room were listening quietly and then one of them said, "Go on, tell 'em, Miss Framis." "We just want you to quint," the big man said, "and won't thursday on it." She stared at him without expression and got up slowly. She went over to her friends. "Let's get out of here," she said. She was shivering. * * * * * Q. You say you object to this line of questioning? A. (She) No, I just don't like being spied on. And it made the kids ... mad. They wrecked the car and that meant starting all over again. Q. The car? A. Yes, their hot-rod. When we got outside, they acted the way teen-agers do and went too fast. They were sore at those spies--they took it out on the car, so it went off the road. It turned over three times and we were all killed. Q. They were not spies. They were acting on their own. A. _I_ didn't know that. I just knew something was funny. Anyway, how can you say that? They're a waste. And it would have been part of you, just as I am. It was more of a waste if I hadn't been split. The other part was only about eleven years old and I had to wait another six years to-- Q. It is your own fault if you were split. You cannot blame us. This has happened before--you have aimed badly and arrived wrong. Don't forget about the help. A. Well, in this case it's a lucky thing I did; otherwise the whole thing would have been wasted. And the kelp--that was dreadfully dull. I wanted to try a really primitive form, but not _that_ primitive. Then I got washed up and it led to the cat. After they got the iodine out of the kelp, I was suddenly a cat.