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"Why don't you simply tell the truth After all, as one of the country's leading physicists, you have nothing to be ashamed of"

"I know, but so the real me takes the fun out of it Besides, women love a lover who's phony"

She nodded at his cup "Can I get you more coffee?"

"No thanks" He smiled, and then his expression became serious "You knohy I'm here"

"I guessed"

"I'm worried about Gene"

"So am I"

"You could go back to him"

Dana ether, it only s worse"

"He's lost without you"

She shook her head "His job is hispost for his frustrations Like oes hand in hand with a husband's insensibility when he's overburdened with on-the-job stress Don't you see, Mel? I had to leave Gene before we destroyed each other" Dana turned and held her face in her hands, then quickly co, then things would be different"

"I shouldn't be telling you this," Donner said, "but the project will be co to plan Then Gene will have nothing to keep hiton He'll be free to

return to the university"

"But what about your contacts with the government?"

"Finished We enlisted for a specific project, and when it's finished, so are we Then all of us take a bow and head back to whatever cainally came from"