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| 26 | 81 | "Or are you not yet done with me?" I would have View more quotes about responded">responded, in spite of my better judgment, to reassure her of my intentions to free her as soon as practicable, and to tell her that I believed her greatest chance of safety lay in the anonymity of a specimen in the Vivarium, but it would have been foolish to inform her, treacherous as she was, of my plans, and fortunately there was no opportunity to do so because the Chief Attendant at that moment approached the case and handed me a leather loop on which dangled the key to Vika's case. |
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| 26 | 78 | She turned away. |
| 26 | 79 | I heard her voice from over her shoulder and I could see her reflection in the side of the plastic case before which she stood. |
| 26 | 80 | "Am I now to be abandoned?" she asked. |
| 26 | 81 | "Or are you not yet done with me?" I would have responded, in spite of my better judgment, to reassure her of my intentions to free her as soon as practicable, and to tell her that I believed her greatest chance of safety lay in the anonymity of a specimen in the Vivarium, but it would have been foolish to inform her, treacherous as she was, of my plans, and fortunately there was no opportunity to do so because the Chief Attendant at that moment approached the case and handed me a leather loop on which dangled the key to Vika's case. |
| 26 | 82 | "I will keep her well fed and watered," said the Attendant. |
| 26 | 83 | At these words Vika suddenly turned to face me, desperately, her back against the plastic side of the case, the palms of her hands against it. |
| 26 | 84 | "I beg of you, Cabot," she said, "please do not leave me here". |