“Ok, now is a good time to start discussing it. For a long time, I have been considering the time that we waste. We go out, harvest the raw asteroid..., and then refine them down. When we think we can make a profit, we bring it back to Mars. The time it takes to go out and then come back is wasted. We have productive people sitting around doing nothing but breath air and eat food. But if we miscalculate the market, we end up risking the ship and our family.”“I plan to take the ‘Folly’ out and. Had he done so, he could have mated with the woman, right there in the hotel. The old man obviously didn’t care. She remembered his aimless humming in the car. Maybe he was senile, and didn’t even know what was happening! Old habits, habits of a rich, little spoiled girl, bubbled up in Renee. In the old days she schemed and plotted to get what she wanted, if she couldn’t just buy it outright. She glanced at her rival, and suddenly Felicity didn’t seem so sweet, or innocent. Maybe she had done. Those accompanying him hadn't spoken yet, but they appeared to be as doubtful of the preceding statements as he was."They are the young people that you see around you on the deck. Their leaders have assembled on the quarterdeck and are awaiting you," Admiral Ball informed him with just a bit of a smile, as Lord Seymour and the those with him looked around the main deck at the members of our family."These children caused all of this destruction!?" Lord Seymour bellowed in an angry voice."I. He wanted to take his mobile force and sneak up on the Mexican encampment while they were asleep. He and his men would throw dynamite hand grenades in among the sleeping men. This could prove to be the last straw for the Mexicans. If Jed and his men were successful, the Mexicans might be gone by daylight.The rest of the day saw little fighting, mostly stray sniping by one side or the other, neither one accomplishing anything. Most of the afternoon was spent getting on each other's nerves; too.