He sat down, blowing out a dense cloud of smoke. Agitated whispers ran the length of the boardroom.
Then, at the other end of the table, a second speaker rose to his feet.
Every head turned in his direction. ″Gentlemen,″ he said, ″we all have the interests of the Timesaving Bank at heart.
However, I find it quite unnecessary for us to view this affair with alarm, still less to regard it as a catastrophe.
Nothing could be further from the truth. We all know that our reserves of time are so immense that our position would not be endangered,
even by a loss many times greater than the one we have just sustained.
What is a human lifetime, after all? By our standards, a mere pinprick.
I fully agree with our chairman that there must be no repetition of this incident.
On the other hand, nothing like it has ever happened before, and the chances of its happening again are very remote.
″The chairman was right to reproach us for allowing the girl to escape.
On the other hand, our sole purpose was to render her harmless, and that we have successfully done.
The creature has disappeared - she has fled beyond the borders of time.
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