Sure what to think about it but hurries on. He "makes haste back " is praised for having been so quick and feels pleased with himself; is sent off again in another direction with instructions.

Both arrived uneventfully at the first Lagrange point L. 1 - 10 500 kilometres up on the invisible line connecting the centres of Io and Jupiter. Hal had behaved impeccably and Chandra showed unmistakable traces of such purely human emotions as satisfaction and even joy. But by that time everyone's thoughts were elsewhere; Big Brother alias Zagadka was only a hundred kilometres away. Even from that distance it already appeared larger than the Moon as seen from.
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One another ' said Mr Slant snapping his case closed. He stood up nodding to them and walked stiffly out of the room. 'What a--' Mr Tulip began but Mr Pin raised a finger to his lips. He crossed silently to the door and opened it. The lawyer had gone. 'He knows what we're --ing here for ' Mr Tulip whispered hotly. 'What's he --ing pretending for?' 'Because he's a lawyer ' said Mr Pin. 'Nice place this ' he added in a slightly over-loud voice. Mr Tulip looked around. 'Nah ' he said dismissively. 'I fort that at the start but it's just a late eighteenth-century copy of the --ing Baroque Style. They got the dimensions all wrong. Didja see them pillars in the hall? Didja? --ing sixth-century Ephebian with 58 Second-Empire Djelibeybian --ing finials! It was all I could do not to laugh ' 'Yes ' said Mr Pin. 'As I have remarked before Mr Tulip in many ways you are a very unexpected man. ' Mr Tulip walked over to a shrouded picture and tweaked the cloth.
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