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aminute consent to the sort of thing that "Eblis" hinted at, any more thanany self-respecting girl would have, she'd found herself feeling self-conscious and a little proud whenever she walked past WESCAC's facility in the laboratories of the Cum Laude Project -- as if the computer knew it was she and would have whistled if it could. Then one fateful spring evening she'd stayed late to file some data-papers for Dr. Eierkopf at the laboratory (where she'd worked during a temporary furlough from her Library post), and being the last to leave except for the night security-guards, had crossed the hall from her office to make certain that the door to the -room was locked. . .
"Itwas, just as it should have been," she said. "And I started to go; but then -- maybe I thought I heard something peculiar, a singing-noise or something; maybe not, I don't know. Anyhow I came back to the door, and for some reason or other I unlocked it and went inside. . . just to check, I suppose; or maybe some impulse. . . I was upset about Max's attitude, I remember. . ."
Her narrative grew less coherent here, until she'd got herself inside the co