“ It is not my pride that I am concerned for, and
I would beg for you to remember that I too am
counted among those ‘starry-eyed American
boys’. Though my hands may not be any more
clean than theirs.
…The Lord moves in ways that
I do not pretend to fathom. Does your Particle
truly provide the ability to levitate? ”
;⚜—ℒ⊱
“ I didn’t mean it like that, Mr. Comstock… “
There’s a pause between them, silence so thick that Rosalind
thinks she might drown in it, and she starts to apologize, then
swallows the words just as quickly as they’d started to flood.
She doesn’t owe him an apology. She’s done nothing wrong.
“ It’s an experiment I have tried and proven
hundreds of times before, but it you are
still so skeptical, you may come to my
apartment so that I might demonstrate
my technologies for you. Is that alright? “