August 8, 2006

• After a while, she said, almost sleepily, "Thank you, Genarr."
  "For what?"
  "For offering to go out with Marlene. For risking your mind for my daughter."
  "I'm not risking my mind. Nothing will happen. Besides, I have a ---- a fartherly feeling toward her. After all, Eugenia, we go a long way back together, you and I, and I think -- have always thought -- highly of you."
  "I know," said Eugenia, feeling the stirrings of guilt. She had always know how Genarr had felt -- he could never obscure it. It had inspired her with resignation before she met Crile, and with annoyance afteward.
  She said, "If I've ever hurt your feelings, Genarr, I am truly sorry."
  "No need," said Genarr softly, and there was a long silence.

  Issac Asimov: "Nemesis", p.190

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