He didn't have to turn his head. From the corner of his eye, he could see startlement flash across her face. She'd got her name right; and it was he who had in choosing a name.  
"Putsyn hired a criminal, Dorn Starret, to get rid of her for him," he said . "That was the way Starret made his living. He was an expert at it.
 
"Starret slugged her one night on . He didn't retro her at once. He loaded her on a spaceship and brought her to Earth. During the passage, he talked to her and got to like her a lot. She wasn't as developed as she is now, kind of mousy maybe, but you know how those things are—he liked her. He made love to her, but didn't get very far.
 
"He landed in another city on Earth and left his spaceship there; he drugged her and brought her to the Shelter here and retroed her. That's what he'd been paid to do.
 
"Then he to stick around. Maybe she'd change her mind after retrogression. He stayed in a Shelter just across from the one she was in. And he made a mistake. He hid the retro gun behind the screen.
 
"Putsyn came around to check up. He didn't like Starret staying there—a key word or a familiar face sometimes the memory. He retroed Starret, who didn't have a gun he could get to in a hurry. Maybe Putsyn had planned to do it all along. He'd built up an airtight when Luise disappeared, so that nobody would c............