"Yes," said Horn. "I'm going to be curious what the crewmen say about Larsen when they're picked up."
Ginny looked at him uneasily. "You don't - you don't mean you think -"
"Oh, no!" said Horn wryly. "Why would they be angry with him? I don't think anything of the sort."
But he did. He explained carefully to the Danae's captain that the foot-deep currency should be counted. It turned out that much money which ought to have been lost had been hidden on the Theban. It was recovered.
Horn also explained firmly that the Theban would not go into orbit around Hermas and try to pick out the position of the grounded Danae, because there was no way to get her out to space again except with another pair of emergency rockets, which the Theban didn't carry. He explained other things. Ginny regarded him with a certain surprised respect.
"But I don't see," she told him, two days out of Carola and heading for Formalhaut, "why you bother to decide all these things. Don't you want to be a passenger, considering your ankle?"
"Presently," said Horn. "Right now I want to get to Formalhaut in a hurry."
"But why?" insisted Ginny. "What's the rush?'
"We were going to be married, remember?" asked Horn. "Something more than ten days ago? We've been cheated out of ten days of living happily ever after. I don't want to lose any more than I can help. So I'm insisting on a nonstop trip to Formalhaut. Do you blame me?"
Ginny smiled at him. Then she looked carefully about. There was nobody in sight in this part of the Theban. She kissed him quickly and then looked very proper and unromantic. And they grinned at each other.