Stephen Marlowe

“ He took Marie in his arms.
Alice Cooper removed the tight corset with a sigh of relief. "The first thing I'm going to do when we get back home is go out to the beach somewhere and get sunburned. Swim and ride horseback, too," she told one of her companions. "I feel all—all scrunched up."
"Little wonder, Alice. Women weren't made to wear these tight things and get all constricted."
"What a job," said Alice. "Sometimes I wonder if it's worth it. We still have three more planets to visit on this trip." ”

“ A man would grow bored working in an office."
"See?" Alice Cooper cried. "See? I just knew I'd love Talbor. You're so primitive. Why, you're practically—Cro-Magnon. Come on outside, Harry. I want to take your picture."
She took his big hand and led him to the door. Marsden looked back uncomfortably and saw Charlie Adcock off in a corner with two of the women of Earth, talking avidly. Strangely, he thought Charlie was scowling about something.
Talbor's strong orange sunlight made him squint while Alice Cooper said: "Tremendous place for a camera enthusiast. I hear it never rains around here. ”

“ You haven't put it on since we got married, that's all."
"We can't scare the Earth people off with a lot of tunics and coveralls."
"Better get dressed," said Marsden, chuckling with grim amusement as Marie struggled with the unfamiliar garment. Marsden's own starched collar threatened to choke him, but the women of Earth would expect it.
"What's so funny, Harry?"
"There must be an easier way to climb into that thing. You look so funny."
Marie's back was toward him. She took the dress off and threw it across the bed. "All right, I won't wear it. I won't wear anything. I'm not going." ”

“ Marsden thought of the long walk with her back to Talbor City and wished it were over already.
The spaceship blasted off with a terrible clamor. The people of Earth, the men and women, were gone. They had been here on Talbor only a few hours but to Marsden it seemed much longer. He was infinitely glad they could only stay one day.
He met Charlie Adcock near the steps of the hotel. Charlie carried his shirt under one arm and was scowling. "You know," he said, "songs and pictures are funny things. They sure can fool a guy sometimes."
"Yeah," said Marsden.
"I don't know, Harry. ”

“ A little dog like that never hurt anyone."
"I feel faint, Harry. I expected wilderness and that's what I came to see—but animals running around loose? That's too much."
"Dogs and men get along fine on Talbor."
"On Earth dogs are in the zoo where they belong." Alice Cooper patted her brow daintily with a handkerchief. "I do wish we could get out of this sun."
A person not liking dogs. It wasn't right, Marsden thought. And hating the sun and the soil out of which crops grew and.... Well, he couldn't blame Alice Cooper. ”

“ Surprising this place isn't a desert, don't you think?"
"It rains when it has to."
"Here. Stand over here. Yes, facing the sun. Can you do something to show you're almost—almost ancestral?"
"I don't understand, Miss." ”